My Odyssey with Solomon Northup

At this joint meeting of the Fort Edward Historical Association and the Washington County Historical Society, our Executive Director Paul McCarty will present a program on Solomon Northup. This event is free and open to the public, donations gladly accepted!

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 museum campus in the A. Dallas Wait Law Office. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the Old Fort House and especially the Solomon Northup room after the program.