Honoring the Stories of Local Black Civil War Soldiers with Peter Vermilyea

On Saturday, February 8th at 2 pm the David M. Hunt Library, in partnership with the Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society, will host local author and Housatonic Valley Regional High School history teacher Peter Vermilyea for a talk on local African American soldiers serving in the Civil War. Vermilyea will share information about Milo Freeland, a  soldier serving in the 54th Massachusetts regiment whose gravestone resides at the Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society Museum, as well as those who served in the 29th Connecticut, another all black regiment. February is Black History Month. This talk is free and open to the public.