Book signing event at Borders Express in the Staten Island Mall, Saturday, June 19, 1-4 pm.  Barnett will answer questions and sign recently purchased copies of the award-winning book, Tottenville: The Town the Oyster Built. Price:  $24.99 (softcover edition)

On Sunday, May 30 (Memorial Day weekend), a group of 18 enjoyed a walking tour of Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, with cemetery guide and historian Richard Simpson.  The tour featured the families of Tottenville, Rossville and Kreischerville (Charleston), including the Bedells, Killmeyers, Seguines and others.

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CELEBATING OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR HISTORY

9 am:  Clean-up of Bethel Cemetery by parents, students and staff from Totten Intermediate School.

11 am:  Ceremony honoring fallen comrades by Beauvais Hudson Post 126 American Legion and Brian F. Wallace VFW Post.

12 noon:  Walking tour of Historic Amboy Rd. led by the Tottenville Historical Society

2 pm:  Bluegrass Hit Parade 1946-2020 at the Tottenville Branch Library.

Tottenville Community Day.  Organized by the Tottenville Historical Society and the Tottenville Improvement Council.
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Ghosts of the Historic Peace Conference

with Donald Johnstone Peck, author of A Spirited War--George Washington and the Ghosts of the Revolution in Central New Jersey

Historian Donald Peck of New Jersey gives a fresh analysis of the local events  leading up to the 1776 Peace Conference.
Arranged by the Conference House Association with the Tottenville Historical Society.

Author Don Peck signing his new book in the Conference House kitchen.
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