Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation will host independent scholar and author Amy Godine for a discussion of her book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell Univ. Press, 2023).
Godine chronicles the history of Black American 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 is being held as a hybrid event on Tuesday, February 17 at 7pm. For a suggested donation of $10, attend online via Zoom or in person at Spring Street Gallery, 110 Spring Street.
To register, visit www.saratogapreservation.org or call (518) 587-5030. All registrants will receive a Zoom link in advance, as well as access to the program recording.
Founded in 1977, the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that promotes preservation and enhancement of the architectural, cultural, and landscaped heritage of Saratoga Springs.
Read more about Black American history in New York State.
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