Thursday, July 23 7PM
Author Vist by Carleton Mabee
The next author speaking in our series will Dr. Carleton Mabee (pictured on the right). Dr. Mabee will be speaking about his newest book, Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communites in Ulster County, New York. Fr. Divine was a religious leader, originally from Harlem, who established 30 communities in Ulster County in the 1930s. He was considered a holy man by some and a fraud by others.
Born in China, Dr. Mabee lives in Ulster County and has written books on many subjects including Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist movement, and the Poughkeepsie railroad bridge. Dr. Mabee won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse. A former professor at SUNY New Paltz and Clarkson College, Dr. Mabee is retired but showing no signs of slowing down.
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James B. Cosgrove
Director
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