Speakers Bureau
Grant Cottage provides programs each season, Memorial Day - Columbus Day. To provide information about U.S. Grant and related individuals and topics when the cottage is closed, we suggest programs and portrayals provided by:
David Hubbard
(Davehub [at] aol.com)
- Virtual Tour of Grant Cottage—a brief history of Mt. McGregor and the cottage in which Grant completed his memoirs in 1885.
- Baseball and the Civil War—baseball's development and value during the Civil War.
Steve Trimm
(trimm48 [at] aol.com)
- History of Grant Cottage.
- Harrison Tyrell—Grant's African American Valet who remained within arms'reach to provide care when physicians were not available to the ailing Civil War hero and former president.
- Sam Willett—former Union soldier from Argyle, N.Y. who served as Grant's bodyguard at the cottage in 1885
- Oliver Clarke—the cottage's first caretaker, Civil War veteran and POW at the infamous Anderonville.
- Suye Narita Gambino—the cottage's 2nd caretaker and a citizen of Japan. She was interned during WWII at Mt McGregor and obtained American citizenship after the war.
- Charles Wood—Troy businessman who sent Grant $1,500 upon hearing about his bankruptcy. Wood's note to Grant read, "I owe you this for Appomattox."
- Princess Cantacuzene—Grant's first grandchild, Julia, who married a Russian nobleman and published her recollections of her grandfather.
Steve Trimm also provides historic interpretations of:
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Colonel Frederick Grant, Grant's oldest son
- Lt. Lawrence Van Alstyne—NY 128th Regiment and officer of the U.S.C.T.