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WCHS Local History Book Club- Asa Fitch
February 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
February Meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club
Washington County Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12 PM until 1 PM on Friday, February 9, at the society’s headquarters, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward, NY. Historical society membership is not required.
The upcoming session will focus on Dr. Asa Fitch’s life and accomplishments and will begin with an icebreaker quiz. Attendees are asked to read Their Own Voices, Oral Accounts of Early Settlers in Washington County, collected by Asa Fitch and edited by Jeanne Winston Adler; Asa Fitch and the Emergence of American Entomology by Jeffrey K. Barnes; or any other work by or about Dr. Fitch.
Dr. Fitch was born in 1809 in Salem, NY and by 1865 he was one of the world’s premier entomologists. Additionally, Fitch was a renowned historian. His laboratory in Salem is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The book club meets regularly on the second Friday of the month at 12PM, usually at the Washington County Historical Society Wing-Northup House in Fort Edward. The March meeting will focus on An Introduction to Historic Resources in Washington County, NY published in 1976. It has chapters on each of the towns, with detailed maps.
Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as works by local authors. Proposed topics include the temperance movement in our area, agricultural fairs in Washington Co., and the county poorhouse. For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.