FINDING JULIA: CENTERING BLACK WOMEN IN ANTEBELLUM HISTORY Discussing The Vice President's Black Wife by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Martin Van Buren park rangers will lead a discussion of this new book on Julia Chinn, the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, Martin Van Buren's VP. This program will be held in person at the Kinderhook […]
Heritage Month Book Club: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler E. Butler • Thursday, 02/29/24: 5 p.m. • We'll have snacks! • In person and on zoom • RSVP for the zoom link Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality, the novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young […]