Dart on Dart

 

I mentioned Clarence Dart on this blog a couple of years ago, and on Memorial Day this week I snuck away from my volunteer duties at Grant Cottage to attend a talk given by his son Warren, a retired schoolteacher and coach from Saratoga County.

Dart senior, a pillar of his Saratoga Springs church and community after the war, was a Tuskegee airman. He survived 95 combat missions in Europe in World War II, and was shot down twice. He later worked as a draftsman for General Electric Co. for 37 years, in Schenectady and at KAPL in Niskayuna.

African-American troops first served (in significant numbers) in the US military during the Civil War, when they were in segregated units. That segregation remained in place through World War II.

Salisbury, MA talk coming up Wednesday

 I will be speaking and PowerPointing this Wednesday May 8 at the Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack, Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury, Massachusetts. The meeting runs from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

As usual these days, I'll be speaking mostly on the Montgomery biography, but no doubt Generals Granger and Grant, the central figures in my other two books, will also enter the mix. The event is open to the public and free of charge.