WCHS Local History Book Club

Washington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday, September 9, at the society’s Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. The club usually meets on the second Friday of the month. Historical Society membership is not required.

The September 9 topic will be any book on Washington County’s 123rd Regiment in the Civil War.  Some options are: Reminiscences of the 123rd Reg. N.Y.S.V. by Sgt. Henry C. Morhous;  The 123rd Regiment N.Y.V.I. 1862-1865 Their Story  by Edie Baldwin Meikl;   We Were Marched Hither and Thither…” The 123rd NY in the Gettysburg Campaign by Michael Russert;  Letters Home: The 123rd NY Infantry in the Atlanta Campaign; and When This Cruel War Is Over by Charles Vavrina.  Some of these books are available in the WCHS book shop.                                                                             

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.