Membership in the Quincy Gillmore CWRT is open to anyone with an active interest in the study of the military, political, and social aspects of the American Civil War, including the events leading up to the Civil War and the events of the Reconstruction Era.

Meetings are held the second Monday of September and the first Mondays October through May, on the campus of the Lorain County Community College. Meetings start at 6:30 pm.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Our March Speaker




The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 created a firestorm of opposition throughout the North but particularly in Ohio and Lorain County. Ron Gorman of the Oberlin Heritage Center will discuss Ohio's resistance to the law at our March meeting.

The presentation will focus on Ohio's personal liberty laws and on resistance to federal attempts to enforce the law, which put the state government in direct confrontation with the federal government

Ron has been a docent, blogger, lecturer and researcher at OHC since 2012 and has been honored with its 2015 Community Historian award. He is an active poster and is now a retired moderator of "civilwartalk.com". By profession, Ron is a software engineer and has his own database consulting business.

The meeting and presentation will be held in room 2007 of the iLOFT Building on the campus of Lorain County Community College in Elyria. Meeting time is 6:30 pm. For further information contact jjjablon@aol.com.
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