CCHA lines up historical presentations for August

PLATTSBURGH | The Clinton County Historical Association has lined up an exciting series of events and presentations this August, most of them free and open to everyone except for Sunday on the Island, which costs $30. Note that reservations must be made for some. Aug. 3: Sunday on Valcour Island. The boat leaves from the Peru Dock between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. for a tour of the Bluff Point Lighthouse. Registration required. Call 518-561-0340. $30 per person. Aug. 6: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. America250 Event at the Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Ave. A Revolutionary War Training Camp for boys and girls ages 12 to 16. Learn all aspects of the Revolutionary war soldier's camp life. Preregistration required. Call 518-420-6477 or email sandymt2@yahoo.com. Aug. 9: 10 a.m. Riverside Cemetery. Untold Tales of Famous Families. A tour with stories of the gravesites of some known and some not so well-known local families with City Historian Jackie Stewart and CCHA volunteers Anne Bailey and Helen Nerska. Aug. 20: See Aug. 6. Aug. 23: 10 - 11:15 a.m. America250 Event at the Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Ave. "Whatever Shall I Wear" This workshop will explain the types of clothing men, women and children wore during early Revolutionary War times. Workshop leader Sharon Bell will also explain your options for creating the Revolutionary War period look with relative ease. Preregistration required. Call 518-561-0340. Aug. 26: 1 p.m. Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Ave. Women's Equality Day – A Jury of Your Peers. Women received the right to vote across the nation in 1920 but not the right to have a jury of their peers until years later. Learn about that struggle and gradual acceptance of women on juries. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the Clinton County Historical Association, the Kent-Delord House Museum, the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association, the Saranac Chapter, NSDAR and the Plattsburgh Business & Professional Women. Aug. 26: 6:45 p.m. Lake Forest Retirement Community, 8 Lake Forest Drive. Remembering Clinton County's World War I veterans and the hometown celebrations that welcomed them back. Introducing the Clinton County WWI Record 1917-1919, the story of the impact of World War I on the Clinton County Community.

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