Rejection of my Book

I was born in a house built in 1687 in Copake and ran a 380 acres, 130 cow dairy farm in Copake for 30 years. I was president of Columbia County Farm Bureau and invited the United States Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of New York to Copake to honor Bud Fischer for his work in starting the bulk handling of Milk. I provided pictures of the occasion for the display the upcoming display at the Roeliff Jansen Historical Society of which I am a member. I hope they make use of the material I have provided to them.

I also wrote a history of the area.. I document the importance of what happened here to the development of the United States. I offered to give a copy of Rebels of the North to each person attending the Historical Society annual banquet. My offer of a free book about the history of the area was rejected. For that reason I gave my paid for ticket away and do not plan to attend the Banquet.

I believe the rejection was because of my first book, Scandal in the Courtroom. That book remains controversial. It was written to clear my son’s name for his arrest for arson which never went to trial. It involves a cover-up of an illegal arrest. As part of the cover-up Federal District Judge Howard G. Munson ruled my son confessed. That is blatantly faults, but that ruling prevented a trial from taking place.

There is also another fact the public has a right to know. I filed a motion for sanctions against the lawyers that lied. Judge Munson removed my motion from the court records in Syracuse, but evidence of its existence remained the Court Records in Albany.

Howard G. Munson was appointed to the court by President Gerald Ford and served in the Northern District of New York for 32 years. .He even served as Chief Judge from 1980 to 1988. His decision to step down as judge came after a petition for his impeachment was sent to the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Judge Munson faced being indicted for altering Court records. I was the person that filed that petition.

Grant Langdon,

former Columbia County Farm Bureau President