Guest Speaker Series: Ben Kemp "A Yankee Galvanized Yankee"| Holland Land Office Museum

The Holland Land Office Museum is proud to announce the next presenter in our Guest Speaker Series on Thursday, April 24th at 7 pm.

Ben Kemp, of U.S. Grant's Cottage Historic Site, will be presenting, "A Yankee Galvanized Yankee: The Man Who Fought on Both Sides of the Civil War." He will share the incredibly unusual tale of Hugh Clemons.

Learn about the circumstances that brought a man born and raised in the Southern Adirondacks of New York State into the service of the Confederate army and how he eventually ended up on the other side of the fight. Discover how he was regarded when he returned to the North after the war and his interesting connection to commanding Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
Ben Kemp is a living historian, speaker, and researcher who has been featured by C-Span, PBS, the National Park Service, and on the 2020 History Channel documentary Grant. Kemp has been a staff member at Grant Cottage Historic Site since 2014, has published numerous online articles, and is a contributing author to the book Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant.

Admission is $5 or $3 for museum members.

Please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or hollandlandoffice@gmail.com if you plan to attend.