Beyond the Book: "Bloody Mohawk" by Richard Berleth
Schedule
Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
237 Kingsboro Ave, Gloversville, NY, United States, New York 12078 | Gloversville, NY
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Join us for inaugural meeting for our new quarterly book club, Beyond the Book with the FCHS! This year, we'll explore the histories and stories of the American Revolution, to the Mohawk Valley and beyond. Our first read is "Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War and American Revolution on New York's Frontier" by Richard Berleth. Copies are available for purchase at Mysteries on Main St.
Participation is FREE for FCHS members or $10 for non-members (payable at the door). Meetings take place at the Fulton County Historical Society and include a close-up examination of a relevant item from our collection and light refreshments. Pre-registration is required: https://forms.gle/R6A9zkjeLN1g7sgWA
"Bloody Mohawk" is a sweeping historical narrative that chronicles events instrumental in the painful birth of a new nation from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the lopsided Battle of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of the Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition's destruction of the Iroquois homeland. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley. The fury of the war increased year by year in the Mohawk Valley, escalating to total war and near-genocide. It didn't have to be that way. Streaming with colonial traffic, the Mohawk River Valley earlier in the 18th century had become a place where the core ethnic groups of an emerging nation Native Americans, Palatine Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, English, and Highland Scots met in commerce and partnership and relative peace and security. Then, wrenched apart by brutal political partisanship, the very social and cultural diversity of the Mohawk corridor made the upheavals when they finally came as violent and pitiless as anywhere.
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