Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, local launch event, in conversation with Cornelia Read
Join a conversation with writer Cornelia Read, and hear about our uncanny Vanderzee connections.
Staatsburgh State Historic Site, author event and book signing
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hudson-valley-reckoning-author-event-book-signing-tickets-1003685850397
Greene County Historical Society, Coxsackie
Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn, Coxsackie, N.Y. https://www.gchistory.org/events-copy
Suggested donation $10.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown
A talk featuring the Van Bergen Overmantel, an important piece of a puzzle in the family history of both me and Eleanor Mire.
Ten Broeck Mansion, Albany County Historical Association
Author talk and book signing. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-a-hudson-valley-reckoning-tickets-1044090762577?aff=oddtdtcreator
Breakfast Club, Englewood Hospital, Englewood, N.J.
A conversation about A Hudson Valley Reckoning. For more information: https://www.englewoodhealthfoundation.org/event/breakfast-club-fall-2024/
Publication day launch party!
Launch party at Pepco Edison Place Gallery, sponsored by Sanctuary Theatre
Vedder Research Library, Coxsackie, N.Y
More information at: https://www.gchistory.org/events-copy
Politics & Prose, Connecticut Ave., book launch in conversation with Wesley Lowery
More details at https://www.politics-prose.com/debra-bruno
Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in Early American North
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.
A Conversation about Slavery in the Hudson Valley
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.