Actors in period costume will portray Moore and Livingston. The public is invited to the free event with a jury selected from the audience. Kathryn Sheehan, Rensselaer County historian, will be an expert witness. It is an enduring literary whodunit with partisans who argue vehemently both for Moore and for Livingston as the true author of the anonymous poem. Retired state Supreme Court Justice Bernard J. Stewart Jones, who will represent long-accepted author Clement Clarke Moore, and Jack Casey, who will represent Henry Livingston Jr., whose descendants claim he actually wrote the poem for which Moore took credit. Moore: Who Really Wrote 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas?'" 23, 1823.Ĭrary is bringing in a dream team of litigators to the Rensselaer County Courthouse for a full-blown mock trial of "Livingston v. He's putting on trial the disputed authorship of the iconic Christmas poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas," popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas," that was first published without an author's credit in the Troy Sentinel on Dec. The ginger-haired impresario, who has brought all manner of merriment and boosterish shenanigans to the Collar City, is planning an outsized holiday production. Where: Rensselaer County Courthouse, 80 Second St., Troy.Ĭost: Free $5 donation for after-party at County Historical Society
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