The Peru Gazette

April 9^th – 2:30 pm, Meadowbrook Healthcare, 154 Prospect Avenue, Plattsburgh A Virtual Tour of the Old Base Oval with Helen Nerska showing photos of the original buildings and the histories associated with each.

April 11^th – 10 am to 3 pm, Clinton County Historical Association & Museum, 98 Ohio Avenue, (Old Base) Plattsburgh. Celebrating Slow Art Day. Share your thoughts and inspirations as you join CCHA Board member Karin Thone for tours of the museum and its art treasures. Special tours are scheduled for 11 am and 1 pm.

April 17^th, 12:30 pm, Plattsburgh Senior Center, 5139 North Catherine Street, Plattsburgh. Town of Peru Settlers before the Revolution – Not Just William Hay in 1772.  People and Stories never before revealed with David Glenn. 

April 22, 6:00 pm, Peru Free Library, 3024, N. Main Street, Peru. Town of Peru Settlers before the Revolution – Not Just William Hay in 1772.  People and Stories never before revealed with David Glenn.

April 23^rd – 6:00 pm, Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel, Old Base, Plattsburgh. “Should the Enemy come up the Lake…you will act with such cool determined valour, as will give them Reason to repent their Temerity.” On October 11, 1776, Commandant Benedict Arnold and his American Fleet literally found themselves in dire straits. Outgunned and out manned, it was a setting of Arnold’s choosing, and one in which he hoped to slow and ensnare the inevitable British advance into the Champlain Valley. Join Ed Scollon as he shares the findings of the Valcour Bay Research Project and the consequences that the Battle of Valcour had for the American Gondola New York, its crew and one of their families. Ed Scollon is a retired NYS Trooper and NYS Underwater Recovery Team Member. A Co-Founder and Co-Principal Investigator of the Valcour Bay Research Project, Ed continues to work as an archaeological diver and researcher, focusing his study on the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island.

Please contact Helen Nerska, Director, Clinton County Historical Association for more information. All events are free and open to the public.  Thank you for sharing our history.