A Union of Friends
Wednesday, September 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Step back in time for the history and legacy of Old Peru’s first village, the “Union”. It was a Quaker settlement in the vicinity of the present Keese Homestead and Quaker Cemetery on what is now Union Road in the Town of Ausable. These early Quaker settlers or “Friends” as they preferred to be called, were mainly farmers who came from Dutchess County, NY.
Guest Speaker: Helen Nerska is the Town of Peru Historian & the director of the Clinton County Historical Association & Museum. She is on the boards of the Saranac Chapter NSDAR, Northern New York American Canadian Genealogical Society, Women’s Rights Alliance of New York, & the League of Women Voters of the North Country. She is the editor & author of the Clinton County Suffrage Story and the editor of the “Heritage Corner” published monthly in the Sun Community News. Helen is the seventh generation living on her Allen family farm in Peru.