The Elk Township Historical will hold their Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Community Center at Scandia Corners, the former Scandia School. The meeting will open with annual reports of Standing Committees and an election of new board members.

At 7:30, the guest speaker will be Marcia Tuttle Kleinert. the author of two books about the village of Kinzua, which was demolished and inundated by the waters of the Kinzua Dam in the 1960s. Kleinert remembers the many hours she spent visiting with her grandparents at their home in Kinzua. Her father, James Tuttle was born and raised in Kinzua. The Tuttle family settled in Kinzua in the early 1800s and stayed until 1962 when the Kinzua Dam was built by the Corps of Engineers, flooding the village.

Family members often would tell stories about life in Kinzua and with the encouragement of her brother, She penned her first book, “Kinzua Life” to insure that the stories would not be lost. She wrote these memories for her daughter and future family generations.

She did not want Kinzua to be forgotten!

Kleinert attends the Kinzua reunion each year, where most people have a story or two to tell her. Her second book “Kinzua Storytellers” has just been published, which includes stories that many people have never heard. Both books are available at the Warren County Historical Society and Kleinert will have copies with her. She is Vice President of the Warren Genealogical Society, a board member and Genealogist at Warren County Historical Society, a member of the Fenton History Center, as well as the Elk County Historical Society.

Marcia Tuttle Kleinert will be speaking.