Helen Nerska is the historian for the Town of Peru and the director of the Clinton County Historical Association and Museum. After graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh, Helen worked in Canada for 35 years in senior marketing and administrative positions before returning in 2005 to live as the seventh generation on the family farm in Peru, New York. She was museum manager for the North Star Underground Railroad Museum from January 2010 to April 2014 and is on the boards of the Saranac Chapter NSDAR (treasurer), Greater Hudson Heritage Network, Northern New York American Canadian Genealogical Society, Women’s Rights Alliance of New York (2nd vice-president), Town of Peru Historian, and the League of Women Voters of the North Country (co-president). In January 2012 she was elected president of the Clinton County Historical Association and Museum and took over as director in March 2017. She currently serves as the full-time director for the association on a volunteer basis. Her personal commitment is preserving and sharing the long, inspiring, and significant history of Clinton County and New York State. She is the editor and author of the Clinton County Suffrage Story and speaks regularly on Clinton County history. She is also the editor of the “Heritage Corner” published monthly in the Sun Community News and "Looking Back" published monthly in the Plattsburgh Press Republican.

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