The Peru Gazette

5:00 pm, Thursday, December 4

Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh

For the past seven years, Robin Caudell‘s back-burner book simmered about abolitionist martyr John Brown’s memory and legacy in the Adirondacks. Placing him in the context of the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands, this presentation examines oppression of the oppressed and the adoption, captivity, and slavery practices of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Western Abenaki before, during, and after European contact.This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.

Born and raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Robin Caudell holds a BS in Journalism, from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. An award-winning Staff Writer at the Press-Republican and a U.S. Air Force Veteran, she is the 2023 Veterans Writing Award Winner for Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir,which will be published by Syracuse University Press in May 2026.

Currently, Caudell is the director/executive producer/screenwriter for “Witness Tree at Union Road,” a speculative documentary in production about a Dutch-American family and its evolution from enslaver, abolitionist, to Union Army soldier KIA in the Civil War. The film is a collaboration with the North Star Underground Railroad Historical Association and the Clinton County Historical Association. This presentation is free and open to the public. Call 518-561-0340 for more information.