News and upcoming
Events:
2025 Engineers Week Dinner
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 5:30 pm with
dinner at 6:30 pm at the Holiday Inn Arena
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Featured Speaker -
Gerald Smith - Executive director of the Tioga County Historical Society |
Title/subject -
"Now He Belongs to the Ages: The Lincoln Portrait, Matthew Brady,
Benjamin Loring, the Civil War and Tioga County" This PowerPoint
will discuss the upcoming exhibit of the same name and the story of
how an 1861 portrait of Lincoln was painted in Matthew Brady's
studio and how it came to Owego, along with Brady images and his
daybook, and the uniform of a naval officer in Ford's Théâtre who
helped carry Lincoln across the street to the Peterson's house in
1865.
Registration Information
Newsletter - NYSSPE Broome Chapter
Updated 12/18/2024 |