Tuskegee Airmen celebrated at Greenwood Lake Library

Greenwood Lake - The Greenwood Forest Farms Association will present a Black history month celebration at the Greenwood Lake Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 24, that will feature a talk on the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. The program, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., is co-sponsored by the library and the Greenwood Lake American Legion Post 1443 and will Major General Glendon A. Fraser, president of the Newburgh/Stewart AFB Major General Irene Trowell-Harris Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. The general’s lecture will be followed by a performance of “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - A Historical Tribute From Montgomery to Memphis,” featuring four ten-year-old members of the Glenn E. Hines Memorial Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh’s Drama Workshop. This short play has been receiving excellent notices since its premiered in January and has been performed in area churches in Orange County. The celebration will end with the showing of a new video presentation documenting the historic Greenwood Forest Farms community. Fourteen year old Michael Duncan will play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” live on the piano for the celebration as well. Refreshments will be served and all are invited to attend this event, which is free and open to the public. The Greenwood Forest Farms Association is an organization which attempts to preserve the history and legacy of Greenwood Forest Farms, a community in the town of Warwick, outside the village of Greenwood Lake which was founded in 1919 as the first African-American resort community in New York State. For more information, contact the secretary of the organization, Paul Kwame Johnson, at 986-5980.