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At the North Shore Historical Museum
on Sat., 25 July 2015 - 7 pm
Footsteps of a Forgotten Soldier,
The Life & Times of David Carll
Presentation and Book-signing by authors
Frank Carl & Denice Evans-Sheppard
David Carll, a young African-American man from Oyster Bay, New York embarked on a journey over 150 years ago to help preserve the Union and end slavery by enlisting and fighting in the Civil War. His journey, life and times are told in a powerful story by his great-great-grandchildren Frank Carl and Denice Evans-Sheppard. The cousins learned their family history at the knee of their grandfather, Percy Carl, on walks to the Pine Hollow Cemetery in Oyster Bay, down the road from Carl's Hill. Carl's Hill is the land purchased post-war by David Carll which remains in the Carl family today. Before enlisting in the Civil War, David Carll married Mary Louisa Appleford, who was white. Vanessa Williams (the Miss America of 1984) is a descendant of that union. Over the past 24 years, Denice Evans-Sheppard and Frank Carl have been arduously researching what it was like raising a family with nine children and living in a time when President Theodore Roosevelt called Oyster Bay “home”. Footsteps of a Forgotten Soldier is the end result of that work and will take you on a remarkable journey of one man’s life experience.
Admission $10 / $5 for Museum Members
North Shore Historical Museum
140 Glen Street - Glen Cove NY 11542
www.NorthShoreHistoricalMuseum.org
