Carol Kammen has been the Tompkins County historian in New York since 2000. Kammen is the editor of the Local History Encyclopedia and author of On Doing Local History and Zen and the Art of Local History, among many other books.
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Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided... SEE MORE