The Cabin Fever Virtual Conversation Series Presents: The Veeders of Montgomery County-Zoom only

The Veeder family, whose members included Colonel Volkert Veeder and state legislators Johannes Veeder and Simon Veeder, owned the land that the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine & Historic Site stands on for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this program, we will learn about the family’s history and about the 1782 Veeder farmhouse and barn. Hear about the continued work restoring the Early Republic-era family graveyard, and about the continued importance of the area’s Colonial and Revolutionary-era history to understanding our shared past.

Nathan Turowsky is Museum & Archive Assistant at the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine & Historic Site. He holds a Master of Theological Studies from Boston University School of Theology; his writing on religious, historical, and cultural topics, as well as fiction and literary translation, can be found at his website, silicatesiesta.com. For the past three years he has been giving presentations for New York State Path Through History Weekend each June and October.