Speaking About History: The Long Road Home: Genealogy and Race in the Hudson Valley

Family genealogy, especially in the Dutch-settled upper Hudson River Valley, is akin to an intricately woven fabric. As this event will show, all history is interrelated. Our history is your history. We are one. Join us as the members of our panel discuss their genealogical experiences: • Debra Bruno - A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering The Forgotten History of Slaveholding In My Dutch American Family and Eleanor Mire - a descendent of one of those Debra’s family enslaved. • Lisa Fludd-Smith (Co-founder, President of the Board) and Peter Smith (Genealogist) – African American Archive of Columbia