No Longer Forgotten: A Research Journey by Carolyn Brown
The following post was written by Carolyn Brown, a frequent researcher at the Local History Collection who has also produced several...
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Jun 16, 20232 min read
Juneteenth Celebration with Carolyn Brown
Over the past several years, Carolyn Brown, an accomplished theatrical performer who is native to Long Island, has shared her...
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Feb 27, 20233 min read
Translation as Poetry: Langston Hughs & Gabriela Mistral
As February morphs quickly into March, and Women’s History Month follows in the wake of Black History Month, it seems appropriate to note...
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Oct 24, 20223 min read
Spotlight on Educators: Keturah A. Townsend
For fourteen years, between 1899 and 1913, Keturah (Kate) Townsend taught Roslyn’s African American children in the segregated one-room...
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Jun 18, 20222 min read
Five Generations: The Helms-Robinson Family of Roslyn
This year, in observance of Juneteenth, the Local History Collection celebrates a local family with deep roots in the Roslyn community....
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Feb 28, 20222 min read
The Peters-Pearsall Partnership
As readers of our blog well know, The Pearsall Family collection has been a major source of research into the lives of Roslyn's Black...
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Feb 22, 20222 min read
Forgotten Faces
It is evident from archival accounts that Roslyn residents of African American and mixed ancestry have been vital members of the...
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Feb 11, 20222 min read
“Let’s talk it out”: John H. Lewis & The Roslyn School Board
East Hills resident John H. Lewis, Jr. was elected to the Roslyn Board of Education in 1966. He served three terms between 1966 and 1974...
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Feb 7, 20222 min read
Those “dreaded 1941 covenants”
Several years ago, the Local History Collection acquired a copy of pages from an early Norgate-at-Roslyn deed. It was received from...
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Jan 3, 20224 min read
“We found you!”: The Salem A.M.E. Cemetery
Researcher Carolyn Brown has been on a journey since the mid 1990’s and made an epic find last week, just in time for the holidays. A...
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Aug 12, 20213 min read
The Pearsall Women: Marion Peters Pearsall
Born to William and Margaret Peters in 1920 in Roslyn, NY, Marion Peters Pearsall was the first wife of Eugene Arrell Pearsall, whose...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
☆★☆ The Answer is: 42 ☆★☆
Donations to the Local History Collection take all forms. Though photographs and documents are our most-received items, our holdings...
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Jun 18, 20213 min read
Juneteenth Jubilation
The Bryant Library Local History Collection celebrates Juneteenth, our country’s newest federal holiday, by remembering some of the...
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Mar 22, 20213 min read
The Pearsall Women: Ethel Pearsall Birch
E. Arrell Pearsall's serial memoir This Is My Life is a formidable work written expressly for the Bryant Library Local History...
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Feb 26, 202111 min read
The Other Side of the Coin: African Americans in Roslyn
By Carol L. Clarke Archivist, The Bryant Library For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater...
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Jan 18, 20212 min read
MLK and WCB
On this important holiday that honors the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we remember the powerful rhetoric he administered as a...
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Aug 28, 20202 min read
The Roslyn Committee for Civil Rights at the March on Washington
Roslyn residents, including members of the Roslyn Committee for Civil Rights, were among the more than one thousand Long Islanders that...
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Jul 29, 20205 min read
The Pearsall Women: Gertrude & Marjorie
For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater Roslyn community. Despite being constrained by...
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Jun 12, 20202 min read
George V. Washington of Roslyn
As we return to work at The Bryant Library, the adjacent Gerry Park is being renovated and renewed. For us at The Local History...
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Jun 8, 20202 min read
60 Years Ago - Roslyn Rallies for Civil Rights
On June 8th, 1960, exactly 60 years ago this evening, over 1,000 people gathered at Roslyn High School to attend the...
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