The following post was written by Carolyn Brown, a frequent researcher at the Local History Collection who has also produced several...

Over the past several years, Carolyn Brown, an accomplished theatrical performer who is native to Long Island, has shared her...

As February morphs quickly into March, and Women’s History Month follows in the wake of Black History Month, it seems appropriate to note...

For fourteen years, between 1899 and 1913, Keturah (Kate) Townsend taught Roslyn’s African American children in the segregated one-room...

This year, in observance of Juneteenth, the Local History Collection celebrates a local family with deep roots in the Roslyn community....

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...

It is evident from archival accounts that Roslyn residents of African American and mixed ancestry have been vital members of the...

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...

Several years ago, the Local History Collection acquired a copy of pages from an early Norgate-at-Roslyn deed. It was received from...

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...

Born to William and Margaret Peters in 1920 in Roslyn, NY, Marion Peters Pearsall was the first wife of Eugene Arrell Pearsall, whose...

Donations to the Local History Collection take all forms. Though photographs and documents are our most-received items, our holdings...

The Bryant Library Local History Collection celebrates Juneteenth, our country’s newest federal holiday, by remembering some of the...

E. Arrell Pearsall's serial memoir This Is My Life is a formidable work written expressly for the Bryant Library Local History...

By Carol L. Clarke Archivist, The Bryant Library For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater...

On this important holiday that honors the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we remember the powerful rhetoric he administered as a...

Roslyn residents, including members of the Roslyn Committee for Civil Rights, were among the more than one thousand Long Islanders that...

For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater Roslyn community. Despite being constrained by...

As we return to work at The Bryant Library, the adjacent Gerry Park is being renovated and renewed. For us at The Local History...

On June 8th, 1960, exactly 60 years ago this evening, over 1,000 people gathered at Roslyn High School to attend the...