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Debra Bruno, author of A Hudson Valley Reckoning in conversation with Eleanore Mire
06:30pm to 08:00pm - December 2, 2025

The New Amsterdam History Center

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Debra Bruno in conversation with Eleanor Mire

 

December 2, 2025
6:00 PM to 7:30PM

 

NAHC Donor Tickets are Complimentary

General Admission is $10.00

at

The Netherland Club of New York
3 West 51 st Street
New York

NAHC Donor Tickets are Complimentary

General Admission is $10.00

Eleanor Mire and Debra Bruno, author of "A Hudson Valley Reckoning,"

 

Debra Bruno is a freelance writer and journalist who has written on a wide variety of subjects, reflecting her experiences while traveling and living in China with her family.  Her articles were published in the Washington Post, the Wall St Journal and the Atlantic.

 

Debra says her world changed when she discovered her Dutch descended ancestors in the Hudson Valley had been enslavers.  Using her skills as a journalist, she delved into her family history with the help of a friend and relative Eleanor Mire, someone she discovered in the research process. Eleanor is a descendant of those enslaved people.

 

Debra’s book on the subject is titled A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slave Holding in my Dutch American Family.

 

Read our review of the book here.
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debra bruno

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

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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