My Odyssey with Solomon Northup

Sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society, our Executive Director Paul McCarty will present a program on Solomon Northup.

Paul first discovered the story about Solomon Northup the year he became Historian of Fort Edward. Doris McEachron at that time was the Argyle Historian. She helped to show Paul the ropes as a new historian. Doris gave him enough information to go looking for the book Twelve Years a Slave which he found at the Village Book Smith in Hudson Falls (for under $20 each!). He found the reference to the Old Fort House which Solomon occupied with his wife upon their marriage in 1828. Overtime, he has worked with historians, scholars, and interested parties studying the Northup story.

Program will take place at the East Hebron United Presbyterian Church.