In Conversation with Amy Godine -The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier
Join the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation for a program with independent scholar and author, Amy Godine, discussing her book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier Godine chronicles the history of Black pioneers who migrated to the Adirondacks from the late 1840s to the 1860s, putting them back into the heart of the Adirondack narrative. In this conversation she will focus on writing the history of a community which did not record its own experience and who left no enduring material culture: not a diary or a memoir, not a house, a barn, or the hint of a foundation. What does historic preservation look like when the physical spaces and places have disappeared?
Amy Godine resides in Saratoga Springs and is a longstanding contributor to Adirondack Life. The Black Woods won the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Society Book Award, as well as favorable reviews in the New York Review of Books and the quarterly journal, Salmagundi.
This program can be attended in person at Spring Street Gallery, 110 Spring Street, or online via Zoom for a suggested donation of $10 or more. To register, click below or call (518) 587-5030.
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