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Writer Amy Godine aims to challenge entrenched ideas about Adirondack exceptionalism. In The Black Woods, Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.
Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, Amy Godine received her BA in American Studies from Hampshire College and an MFA (Fiction) from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She was an editorial assistant for Heyday Press (Berkeley, CA), and wrote for the Willamette Week newspaper (Portland, OR). She has been writing articles and speaking about social trends, marginalized communities and ethnic and Black neighborhoods in Upstate New York since 1988. She currently resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Join us for a Reading, Q & A, and Book sale & signing (Check/Credit Only).
****POSTPONED EVENT FROM JANUARY 23rd****