Skidmore Students’ Research Focuses on St. Peter’s Milestone Anniversary

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A milestone anniversary of a Saratoga Springs church became an independent study project for two Skidmore College seniors, who will present their research January 31 to the public. “Saint Peter’s Church: Parish of the People” is the title of the program to be presented by Madison Lehrhaupt and Roz Rothwell at 7 p.m. Friday, Jauary. 31, in the St. Peter’s Parish Center, 241 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. The students will chronicle 180 years of the history of St. Peter’s Church and more than 370 years of Catholicism in Saratoga County. The public is welcome. Tillman Nechtman, associate professor and chair of Skidmore’s Department of History, said: “this a really good example of the kinds of work history students can do when they engage the wider world. These two have gone to real archives, asked real historical questions, and produced historical narratives of their own, just as academic historians do.”