AAUW Kingston Fall Luncheon
Saturday, November 2, 2024
11 AM to 2 PM
Reginato Ristorante
34 Leggs Mills Road
Lake Katrine

Join us for an afternoon with the author Susan Stessin-Cohn as she shares the new website, developed in connection with the Ulster County Truth and Reconciliation Commission. During the presentation, she will reveal stories from her new book, Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement in Ulster County, which documents a handful of notable Black residents of Ulster County, from the early days of enslavement under the Dutch and English, to the blossoming of free Black culture in the era following New York’s legal abolition of slavery in 1827.

Susan is a professional genealogist and a former professor of Education at SUNY New Paltz.
She served as Director of Education at Historic Huguenot Street, and chair of the New Paltz Historic Land Commission. Susan co-curated several exhibits focusing on the history of the Hudson Valley on topics such as: slavery, 19th-century women’s needlework, poverty and the poorhouse system, the Civil War, and the Lenape People. She is currently the Historian for the Town of New Paltz, New York and serves as co-chair of the New Paltz Historical Society. Susan is also an award-winning quilter and currently resides in New Paltz with her husband Robert where they raised their four children, Mikael, Evan, Adam and Aliyah.

Menu:
House salad, choice of dressing
Sorbet
Entree – choice of:
Eggplant Rollatini
Chicken Parmesan
Fish Almondine
Chicken Francese
– All come with a side dish of pasta
Cannoli or ice cream
Coffee or tea
Food orders will be taken in the restaurant
Cash bar

50/50 drawing and door prizes

Cost: $40 for members, $45 non-members
This is a fundraiser event for our student scholarships. Donations are welcome.

Please send a check made out to AAUW Kingston by 10/25/24
Dorothy Draper-Silberg
7 Garden Court
Saugerties, NY 12477

For more information or to sponsor a student, contact Lynn Gore
(lynngore54@gmail.com)