WCHS Local History Book Club

Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, July 8, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required.

The July meeting of the book club will feature an author talk by Glenn Pearsall of Johnsburg on his historical novel, Leaves Torn Asunder, A Novel of the Adirondacks and the American Civil War, published in 2016. Pearsall is a well-informed historian who has created a poignant story of the families in his local area during the long brutal war. Many of the farm boys who thought enlistment would lead to a great adventure never returned home.

Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as some works by local authors. The proposed list includes works on Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River, Benedict Arnold’s building of the first Navy in Whitehall, and Robert Rogers writing of the rules for rangers in Fort Edward. For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.