Events 2023
8/5 Emancipation Day Address, National Abolition Hall of Fame, Peterboro.
8/6 Commemorative remarks at unveiling of historical marker for Willis Hodges, Loon Lake, Franklin County, NY; Lecture, Willis Hodges’s Blacksville, Loon Lake Jewish Community Center.
9/21 Lecture, Suffrage activism and the Road to Timbuctoo, Northern New York Judges Association, John Brown Farm. North Elba/Lake Placid, 9 am.
10/9 Lecture, "Voting rights, Black pioneers, and the Adirondack Frontier" Silver Bay YMCA Conference and Retreat Center, Silver Bay, NY. 10 am
10/19 Podcast, The Black Woods, 10:30-11:10 am, 1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast with Jonathan Hall.
10/20 Introduction to The Black Woods and Paul Miller’s film (Searching for Timbuctoo), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Saratoga Springs, mid-afternoon.
10/27 Podcast. NCPR's station manager Mitch Teich interviews author Amy Godine about her new book, The Black Woods. Noon-12:20pm.
11/1 Keynote lecture, 44th Annual Members Meeting of Historic Saranac Lake, John Black Room, Saranac Laboratory Museum, 89 Church St., Saranac Lake. 6pm -7pm.
11/6 Zoom event. "Justice on the Adirondack Frontier." For ADKX's 2023 In the Adirondack Library Series, Amy Godine gives a brief, illustrated talk about The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier, followed by an interview with NCPR's Mitch Teich. 7 pm-8pm.
11/10 Reading, interview, and signing. Annie Stoltie, Editor-in-Chief of Adirondack Life, interviews Amy Godine about her new book at the Northwood School Main Street Hub. Sponsored by The Bookstore Plus and the Hub. 2495 Main St., Lake Placid. 4-5 pm.
11/11 Reading and a conversation with author Amy Godine, Paul Hai, Assoc. Dir. SUNY-ESF, Newcomb, and Martha Swan, Dir. John Brown Lives!, at the Adirondack Interpretive Center, 5922 NY-28N, Newcomb, 1 pm.
11/12 Lecture, Albany Institute of History and Art, 125 Washington Avenue, 2 pm.
11/13 Interview with Joe Donahue, The Book Show, WAMC, Albany, 11:10 am.
11/14 Battenkill Books, 15 East Main, Cambridge, NY. Live and zoomed, 6 pm.
11/15 Talk and book signing, Northshire Bookstore, 424 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, 6 pm.
11/16 Talk and q&a on The Black Woods at Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook. 1 pm-2pm. Also at the APA until Nov. 17, the exhibition Dreaming of Timbuctoo from John Brown Lives!
11/19 Keynote talk, The Black Woods, Annual meeting, Saratoga County Historical Society & Brookside Museum, Ballston Spa, 2 pm.
11/20 Interview with Dan Clark, New York NOW, WHMT, Troy. 10am-11am.
11/21 Hart Cluett Museum, 52 2nd St., Troy, Q & A with Kathy Sheehan, Rensselaer County and Troy Historian, and Executive Director of the Hart Cluett Museum, 7 pm.
12/1 Talk, q&a, and book signing, Adirondack Center for Writing, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake, 6:05-7 pm.
12/2 Lecture, John Brown's Black Woods: Stories from Timbuctoo, Freeman's Home, and Blacksville, at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 220 Prospect St. Torrington, CT.. Talk is sponsored by Torrington Historical Society. 4-4:45 pm. Book signing to follow. From 2-3 pm, join the annual commemorative walk around John Brown's historic birthplace, at the John Brown Road, in Torrington CT.
12/5 Presentation, Recovering a Vanished History: The Black Woods. Adirondack Correctional Facility, Ray Brook, Saranac Lake, NY, 9 am-2 pm.
12/6 Talk. Bound for Suffrage! Greenwich's Black pioneers in the Adirondack mountains. Greenwich Free Library with the Greenwich-Easton Historical Association. 148 Main Street. 6:30 pm.
12/22 Podcast, "The Historians." Episode 504. Bob Cudmore interviews Amy Godine about The Black Woods. Listen and download The Historians Podcast on www.bobcudmore.com.