
Our own Wayne Sherrer appeared in Lehigh Valley News.com as part of their Black History in the Lehigh Valley article:
Graves and genealogy
Additionally, author Rev. Wayne C. Sherrer’s exhibition, “Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021,” shines the light of the Black experience in the small New Jersey town.
Sherrer, a priest at St. James in Hackettstown, New Jersey, is an avid genealogist and sixth generation resident of Phillipsburg and former president of the of the Phillipsburg Area Historical Society.
His published works include “A Guide to Civil War Graves in Phillipsburg Cemetery,” transcriptions of the parish records of Wesley Methodist Church and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (both in Phillipsburg).
When: 1 p.m. Feb. 17
Info: The Sigal Museum and Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, 342 Northampton St., Easton, sigalmuseum.org
— From Lehigh Valley News.com

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