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Contact: Todd Arrington, (440) 255-8722
Arizona-based historian and writer Sharon Kennedy will visit Mentor, Ohio to speak at Mentor Public Library at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, September 13. Her talk will be part of the joint “Leaders and Legacies of the Civil War Era” program series hosted monthly by the Library and James A. Garfield National Historic Site. Her program is entitled Connecting the Dots between Buffalo Soldiers in Arizona Territory in 1885 and President James A. Garfield.
“Buffalo Soldiers” were Black U.S. Army cavalry troops stationed throughout the American West after the Civil War. In 1885, Buffalo Soldiers in Arizona’s Chiricahua region constructed a stone monument to assassinated President James A. Garfield. Kennedy’s presentation will discuss these Buffalo Soldiers and their reasons for building the monument to Garfield.
The location in which the Buffalo Soldiers built the monument is now part of Chiricahua National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service. James A. Garfield National Historic Site is also a National Park Service site.
“This is going to be a great program,” said Site Manager Todd Arrington of James A. Garfield National Historic Site. “Few people know about this Garfield monument in Arizona, so having Sharon Kennedy in Mentor to discuss it adds another layer to our knowledge and understanding of President Garfield’s legacy.”
The September 13 program is free of charge and will be held on the lower level of Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, located at 8215 Mentor Avenue in Mentor, Ohio. Please call the library at (440) 255-8811 or visit mentorpl.org to register for the program.
James A. Garfield National Historic Site is located at 8095 Mentor Avenue (U.S. 20) in Mentor, Ohio, approximately 25 miles east of Cleveland. The site offers guided tours of the Garfield home, museum exhibits, two outdoor cell phone tours, and an introductory film. The National Park Service completely restored the house in the late 1990s, making it one of the most impressive presidential homes preserved for the public.
Last updated: September 7, 2023