Justine Legg Hommel Memorial Lecture

Voices of the Catskills: Celebrating the Legacy of Shirley Wiltse Dunn, Leah Showers Wiltse, and Doris West Brooks —Three Trailblazing Mountain Top Women who Wrote History.

Saturday, July 26, at 2 p.m.

Twilight Park Clubhouse, Haines Falls, NY. Please register by emailing mthsdirector@mths.org or calling 518-589-6657.

Please join us for the Annual Justine L. Hommel Memorial Lecture to celebrate the legacy and writings of three outstanding Mountain Top women historians. These women, all born in Tannersville, studied, researched and wrote about the history of the Mountain Top, the Catskills and the Hudson River Valley. 

A panel of historians will discuss the accomplishments and legacies of these women. The panelists include Heidi Hill, site manager of Crailo and Schuyler Mansion State Historic Sites, David William Voorhees, of the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, Richard Sears Walling, a student of African American and Indigenous history, and Richard Brooks, a land surveyor and historian whose mother was Doris West Brooks. There will be a video taped interview with Heather Bruegl, a public historian and citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. The program will be Introduced and moderated by MTHS President, Adrienne Larys. This is an original program developed by the MTHS for the Justine L. Hommel Lecture Series.