Her War

Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

Month: June 2017

ALHFAM 2017: Part 3, The Jello Museum and Genesee Country Village & Museum

Tuesday was tour day. My first stop was the Jell-O Museum in LeRoy, NY. It’s a small museum in an old school house behind the LeRoy Historical Society. It is cute with all sorts of Jell-O stuff.                 As the museum is maintained and organized by the Historical Society, the basement included a non-Jell-O exhibit on transportation with sleighs, wagons and buggies. After […]

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ALHFAM 2017: Part 2

Part 2 is text heavy, sorry about that. Didn’t take many pictures during the sessions. Some of the sessions I attended were, well, lack luster. So I’m going to concentrate on the sessions I really enjoyed. The conference officially started off Saturday night with the opening reception and dinner. Dinner included specialties from the Fingerlakes area including garbage plates (with tutorial), buffalo wings, and beef on weck sandwiches. Also included […]

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