The Peru Gazette

October 16^th, 12:30 pm, Plattsburgh Senior Center, 5139 North Catherine Street, Plattsburgh A Jury of Your Peers.  Women received the right to vote across the nation in 1920 but not the right to be on a jury until years later. Learn the struggle for and gradual acceptance of women on juries, and the local women who were recorded as ‘firsts’. With Helen Nerska.

October 18^th, 2 pm, Beekmantown Town Hall, 571 Spellman Rd, West Chazy.  Moses Hazen, Clement Gosselin, and Congress’s Own Canadian Regiments: Their Personal Contributions in Winning the War for Independence with Gary VanCour and Thaddeus Booth Trudo. Most people probably have never heard of the Canadian Regiments that played a most important role in winning our nations independence during the American Revolution. Thaddeus Booth Trudo and Gary VanCour will present the historical, cultural, and military background leading to the formation of the Canadian Regiments serving in the Continental army. Often known as Congress’s Own, this presentation will feature the vital part that these Regiments and their veterans played both in the American Revolution and in early settlement of Clinton County. Although their life stories are somewhat varied, both Moses Hazen and Clement Gosselin are excellent examples of dedicated patriots who suffered severe sacrifices which their wartime service cost them in supporting the American dream of freedom from the British crown.

October 25, 2:00 pm, tour starts at foot of Green Street, Plattsburgh. Peace Point & Historic District Walking Tour. The 1.5 hour narrated walking tour comparing today with historic photos begins at the Commemoration Bridge at the foot of Green Street and covers the history of the city and the railyard, concluding at the historic Peace Point.  Call 518-561-0340 to register. Walk-ons also welcome. Free and open to the public.

October 22^nd – 5 pm, Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Avenue,  “Oppression of the Oppressed: Freedom and Unfreedom Among the Haudenosaunee.” Presented by Robin Caudell, award-winning journalist and videographer and staff writer at the Press Republican. 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.

November 4^th, 5:30 pm, Plattsburgh Public Library, 19 Oak Street, Plattsburgh. “Lost Plattsburgh: Our Missing Architectural Roots”  Focusing on the architecture and importance of Plattsburgh buildings destroyed by fire or willful act and picking up where Allan Everest left off in Our North Country Heritage (1972), the presentation discusses how their loss has left a lamentable gap in our nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. With Dr. James M. Lindgren, Professor Emeritus, SUNY, Dept. of History

November 10^th, 6:30 pm, Lake Forest Retirement Center, 8 Lake Forest Drive, Plattsburgh. A Photo Peek at Old Plattsburgh. Using photos from the CCHA collection, see ‘then and now’ photo comparisons of landmarks in downtown Plattsburgh. Come and see what you might recognize and share stories about these special spots.  With Helen Nerska.

For more information, contact Helen Nerska, Director, Clinton County Historical Association.

(cell) 513-582-7246, (museum) 518-561-0240