The New Amsterdam History Center
and
The Netherland Club of New York
present
Author Debra Bruno
in conversation with
Eleanor Mire
November 20, 2025
6:30 PM to 8:00PM
at
The Netherland Club of New York
3 West 51 st Street
New York
NAHC Donor and New Netherland Club Member tickets are $10.00.
General Admission is $20.00.
$30.00 at the door.
A lifelong writer and seasoned journalist, she began her career challenging authority with a high school editorial—and never looked back. Her work has appeared in Roll Call, Moment Magazine, Legal Times, and as a freelancer for outlets including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. While living in Beijing, she covered everything from baijiu bars to Angkor Wat road races, always drawn to unexpected stories like a magpie to something shiny.
Eleanor Mire is a family historian whose research into her ancestors’ experiences during and after slavery has illuminated powerful truths about America’s past. Her ancestors were enslaved in the 1800s by the family of writer Debra Bruno in upstate New York—a connection the two women discovered while conducting parallel genealogical research in 2020. Mire’s family story also includes great-grandparents who were freed from Southern slavery by Union General Benjamin Butler and eventually settled in Massachusetts.
This project is supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States, as part of the Dutch Culture USA FUTURE 400 program.
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