HLOM History Storytime: Joyce Thompson Hovey, "Civil War Mascots & Pets"

Name: HLOM History Storytime: Joyce Thompson Hovey, "Civil War Mascots & Pets"
Start: 2024-08-17T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 131 W Main St, Batavia, NY, United States, New York 14020

Schedule

Sat Aug 17 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

131 W Main St, Batavia, NY, United States, New York 14020 | Batavia, NY

Bring the kids by the Holland Land Office Museum for our new History Storytime for Summer 2024. On Saturday, August 17th at 11 am Joyce Thompson-Hovey will be sharing the fun topic of Civil War Mascots & Pets. For this presentation the speaker comes in Civil War Union uniform and explains what the average soldier wore and carried with them. This program shows how many regiments had strange and unusual pets. These pets went to war and lived in camps with their soldier owners. These are their unusual stories.Admission is $5 or $3 or museum members. If you would like to sign up please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or [email protected].
After graduating from Oswego State with a BS in Secondary Social Studies and from Brockport State with a BS in Elementary Ed, Joyce Thompson taught for 40 years with experience in pre-first to Senior year in high school. After retiring in 2011, Joyce became a Civil War reenactor, Genesee Area Genealogist president, and Genesee Valley Civil War Roundtable president.