Book Talks

BRIDGE STREET LIVE

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


2024

 

Nov. 12         95 YEAR OLD BOOK CLUB                         ONONDAGA COUNTRY CLUB, SYRACUSE, NY                11:45

June 8          CIVIL WAR INSTITUTE                               GETTYSBURG COLLEGE, with Ryan Keating

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

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

May 2               SEDGWICK FARM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, (SF TENNIS CLUB)  Syracuse, New York

January 9       95 YEAR OLD BOOK CLUB, Onondaga Golf & Country Club            11:45 a.m. [Postponed, Nov. 12, 2024]

2023 TALKS

October 16.    N. 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

https://mass.historicbuildingsct.com/?p=2306

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


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.

The Sedgwick Homestead, @1850, Mrs. Deborah Gannett Sedgwick forefront. Private collection, Burrows
Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (private collection of Charles Sedgwick Tracy)

 

 


OHA Book Store Manager, OnCenter

May 11     THE CENTURY CLUB, Syracuse, NY

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

  

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/

       

     

 

2022

Nov 1.    MANLIUS, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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