On Saturday, February 8th at 2 pm the David M. Hunt Library, in partnership with the Canaan-Falls Village Historical Society, will host local author and Housatonic Valley Regional High School history teacher Peter Vermilyea for a talk on local African American soldiers serving in the Civil War. Vermilyea will share information about Milo Freeman, a soldier serving in the 54th Massachusetts regiment whose gravestone resides at the Canaan-Falls Village Historical Society Museum, as well as those who served in the 29th Connecticut, another all black regiment. February is Black History Month. This talk is free and open to the public.
Event Location

David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031

Honoring the Stories of Local Black Civil War Soldiers with Peter Vermilyea