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The North Tonawanda History Museum will hold its first "Spring Local Author's Day" on Saturday, May 16 from 10 am. to 5 p.m. The History Museum has served as a venue for purchasing books by local authors on a wide variety of historical subjects for the last several years.
Suzanne Simon Dietz, author of “Honor Thy Fathers & Mothers: Niagara Frontier’s Legacy of Patriotism and Survival,” will be present to autograph copies of her book. Dietz is the Town of Porter Historian and is also author of both Porter and Lewiston Arcadia Publishing Images of America Series books and a contributing author to many other local history publications.
Bob Kostoff, author of many books on local history, will be present to autograph “Remembering Niagara: Tales from Beyond the Falls.” Kostoff has been writing feature stories on local history for decades, published in the Buffalo Courier Express, Niagara Gazette, and the Lockport Journal. For the last several years, he has been a contributing writer in the Niagara Falls Reporter. The current book is a sequel to his book, “Nuggets of Niagara County History.”
Christine A. Smyczynski, author of “Western New York Explorer’s Guide,” will also be present. Smyczynski writes travel articles regularly for the Buffalo News, the Democrat & Chronicle, and several other local and regional publications.
Books will also be available for purchase by local author, Jeanne Treat ("Dark Birthright") and her mother Clara Treat's book, "Heartland Verses," and Violet Kolecki, widow of John H. Kolecki who passed away on December 31, 2008, will be present to meet with attendees with the three books her late husband wrote on growing up in North Tonawanda as a Polish American: "The Hybraid Amerykaniec: Dziadzi," "On the Avenues and Beyond," and "Spy, Szpieg, Spion."
Guest speakers will be present throughout the day at the following times to discuss their books:
11 a.m - Amy Santi Bull, author of “Believe, A Collection of Inspirational Poetry” and “My Inner Strength: More Poems of Faith and Hope” and her newest book.
Noon - John W. Percy, local historian and author. with his newest book, "Buffalo-Niagara Connections: A New Regional History of the Niagara Frontier”
1 p.m - Diane M. Meholick, local author with her three books: “Painting Katherine,” “A Switch in Time,” and “Buffalo Stories”
2 p.m.- David Lawrence Reade, local author and photographer. with his three books: “Western New York Wild: Celebrating Our Rich Natural Heritage,” “Beyond Buffalo! A Photographic Journey and Guide to the Secret Natural World of Our Region” and “The Four Seasons of Letchworth: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon of the East”
3 p.m. - Bertamaie Ives, local author of “Ring in the Holidays.”
4 p.m. - Kevin H. Siepel, local author of “Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier”
For more information contact:
Donna Zellner Neal,
Executive Director
North Tonawanda History Museum/Lumber City History Center
54 Webster Street
North Tonawanda, NY 14120
716-213-0554
www.nthistorymuseum.org
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