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The Roosevelt Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District host the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s free. Sign up here! https://www.fdrlibrary.org/events-calendar
A Conversation Between Descendants of Slaveholders and the Enslaved in the Hudson Valley, sponsored by the Irvington Historical Society.
Debra Bruno and Eleanor Mire did not know about the ways that their ancestors in the Hudson Valley were linked to slavery. They will describe their journey, the fascinating connections they found, and their friendship today. Free admission.
Talk on A Hudson Valley Reckoning. Details to follow.
Friends Meeting of Washington, Quaker House Living Room, details to follow.
An online presentation through the Underground Railroad Education Center of Albany, N.Y. Register here: https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/freedomcon-2025-registration/?date=May24
Book talk at Leisure World. Details to come!
Lecture on A Hudson Valley Reckoning. Details to come.
“Follow the River” lecture series at the Wooden Boat School, $10 general public, $5 for members.
The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Conn., hosts an annual book signing with 25 authors, including A Hudson Valley Reckoning.
Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, will host the release of “Fear No Pharoah: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery,” in conversation with Debra Bruno. Details to come.
Join the Women of Reform Judaism to explore the books of DC authors, including Joan Nathan and others, including A Hudson Valley Reckoning.
Meet online with members of the Albany County Historical Society/Ten Broeck Mansion book club to discuss A Hudson Valley Reckoning.
A talk about A Hudson Valley Reckoning, free and open to the public. For more information, go here: https://www.facebook.com/saratogahunters/. or here: https://saratoganygenweb.com/gwsarhh.html
Learn more about how the Civil War involved free Black men in New York, and my own divided family, which included a branch of Georgian Van Valkenburgs who fought for the Confederacy. More information here: https://capitaldistrictcivilwar.org/
Register here for a book talk and cocktail hour at The Hill in Closter, N.J. https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/giving/interior.aspx?sid=1717&pgid=33567&gid=43&cid=52657&ecid=52657&post_id=0&authkey=51g%2b6DarzjVrGlmTmIrpBwsB4ht4Z3YzyU8j%2bqSxvxWcEWMZSfFB0w%3d%3d
A discussion of A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family, in conversation with Amy Godine, author of The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. https://www.northshire.com/event/northshire-saratoga-debra-bruno-hudson-valley-reckoning-amy-godine
A talk on A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in my Dutch American Family. Free and open to the public. Please register here: https://www.olli-dc.org/events/030725lecture
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: A Conversation About the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in New York, in conversation with Lisa Fludd-Smith, Deputy Executive Director of the African American Archive of Columbia County.
A conversation about A Hudson Valley Reckoning. For more information: https://www.englewoodhealthfoundation.org/event/breakfast-club-fall-2024/
2020 Broadway, New York, New York.
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Author talk and book signing. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-a-hudson-valley-reckoning-tickets-1044090762577?aff=oddtdtcreator
In conversation with William Harris, at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Library. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zw0PqS13KE
A talk featuring the Van Bergen Overmantel, an important piece of a puzzle in the family history of both me and Eleanor Mire.
Vedder Research Library, Coxsackie, N.Y. https://www.gchistory.org/events-copy
Suggested donation $10.
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hudson-valley-reckoning-author-event-book-signing-tickets-1003685850397
Join a conversation with writer Cornelia Read, and hear about our uncanny Vanderzee connections.
Launch party at Pepco Edison Place Gallery, sponsored by Sanctuary Theatre
The American Folk Art Museum will feature a display of the Van Bergen Overmantel and an interview with me and Eleanor Mire, talking about our connections to the Van Bergen family and slavery in New York State.
Eleanor Mire and I became friends after we learned that we had both descended from families on the west bank of the Hudson — one of us from enslavers and one from enslaved. Join us for a talk Oct. 7, 1:30 p.m., at Clermont State Historic Site in Germantown, N.Y.
