The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will hold its monthly Society Program on Sunday, June 18 at 2pm in the Community Room. The lecture, sponsored by Van Campen Motors, is free and open to the public. Cynthia G. Neale, author of the recently-published historical novel Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters (2023), will be the guest speaker. Neale deftly and vividly weaves Catharine’s life into the swirling worlds of the Iroquois, French, Americans, and British during the turbulent French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution. Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters gives readers a unique perspective of these momentous times in American history through the eyes of a woman, who straddles all these worlds while remaining grounded in her own culture. Catharine was the daughter of French Margaret and the granddaughter of Madame Montour. Copies of the book will be available for autographing and purchase.
Cynthia G. Neale is a native of the Finger Lakes region of New York and currently resides in New Hampshire. Ms. Neale is the author of The Irish Milliner; Norah: The Making of an Irish-American Woman in 19th-Century New York; The Irish Dresser, A Story of Hope during The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor, 1845-1850); and Hope in New York City, The Continuing Story of The Irish Dresser. She has created The Irish Dresser Series screenplay that is adapted from her four novels. Ms. Neale has also written a dessert and essay book, Pavlova in a Hat Box, Sweet Memories & Desserts. In addition to these works, Ms. Neale writes plays, screenplays, short stories, and essays. She holds a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Vermont College.
As the Society Program coincides with the third Sunday of the month, admission to the museum is free. The third Sunday of each month May through October features free admission. Located at 858 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society provides a history of the region with information about Native American culture, frontier exploration, the development of the Pennsylvania canal, immigration during the 19th century, and the logging and lumbering era of the nineteenth century. The Taber Museum also houses the world-class Larue Shempp Model Train Collection. The museum is open for touring Tuesdays through Fridays, 9:30am until 4:00pm; Saturdays, 11:00am until 4:00pm and Sundays (May through October), 1:00pm until 4:00pm. There is ample parking behind the museum and along the street. For further information, please contact the museum at 570.326.3326.