Book Talks

BRIDGE STREET LIVE

https://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/looking-back-at-letters-from-the-civil-war/

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2026          Stowe Free Library, Stowe, Vermont

2024:

Nov. 12     TUESDAY BOOK CLUB (est. 95 plus years ago) Onondaga Country Club

June 8       CIVIL WAR INSTITUTE at GETTYSBURG COLLEGE, with historian     Ryan Keating

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(For more about this event, see Sarah’s blog)

https://www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-institute/about/

May 2         SEDGWICK FARM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, Syracuse, NY

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January 9      TUESDAY BOOK CLUB (est. 95 years ago) Onondaga Golf & Country Club 11:45 a.m. [Originally Nov. 12, 2024 but postponed]

2023:

October 16      NORTH ANDOVER (MA) HISTORICAL SOCIETY

https://www.northandoverhistoricalsociety.org/upcoming-events/2023/10/16/fall-for-history-speakers-series-presents

October 15 JUDGE SAMUEL HOLTEN HOUSE, Danvers, Massachusetts

Judge Samuel Holten House (1670)

July 18      BIG MOOSE (Lake) COMMUNITY CHAPEL, Eagle Bay, New York

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May 25      
THE ONCENTER, Syracuse, New York

OHA Medal of Honor ceremony. Sarah accepted award presented to her father, William P. Burrows, for his ten year service as lawyer and board member of OHA. Past OHA President of the Board, Chris Lozner, and The Sedgwick Farm Association also received a Medal. Sarah spoke to the over two hundred people in attendance about the transfer of land from her abolitionist ggg grandfather Charles Sedgwick and family to the “Sedgwick Farm Land Company” in 1905, which is today the historic Sedgwick Farm neighborhood.

https://vimeo.com/834483684/fe398b6aa2

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The Sedgwick Homestead, @1850, Mrs. Deborah Gannett Sedgwick forefront. Private collection, Burrows

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Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (private collection of Charles Sedgwick Tracy)

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OHA Book Store Manager, at OnCenter

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May 11      THE CENTURY CLUB, Syracuse, NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJPGMdaZwUU

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May 9      MANSION ON JAMES, George and Rebecca Barnes Foundation. Historic home on The Underground Railroad. Syracuse, NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=4pgLwTSxfjU&feature=youtu.be

https://mansiononjames.com/history/

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2022:

Nov 1      MANLIUS, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cnYS367pig

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