If your institution, organization or bookstore seeks a classroom visit, lecture, interview or panel about The Black Woods, you can reach me at my contact page. College teachers can also organize a classroom zoom through Cornell's Guest Lecturer program. Look for my name here:
Events
(check back for updates and new venues):
2025
3/11 Book talk and q&a, with book signing to follow. Debra Bruno, A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Secret History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family," in conversation with Adirondack historian Amy Godine, Northshire Bookstore, 424 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, 6 pm.
Past events
Suggested Lecture Offerings:
The long romance of Adirondack exceptionalism (breaking up is hard to do)
Irishtowns, Polander Hills, and Little Canadas: Ethnicity in the North Country
Vigilante justice on the Adirondack frontier
A century of Adirondack peddling: No farm or hamlet out of reach
Hidden legacies of slavery in the antislavery Adirondacks
Beyond antiquarian history and Main Street heroes: How migratory, landless, and diasporic Adirondackers shaped the region’s destiny
The Once and Future Adirondack Farmer: Dispatches for New Agrarians from the vanished farmscapes of the Adirondack Park
Conservation’s unexamined roots in eugenics, racialized geography, and the cult of Adirondack purity
