Born in 1877 in the old Roslyn Hotel that stood on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Old Northern Boulevard, Mary Pearsall Lynch...

While the members of the Roslyn High School Girls Basketball Team for the 2023 - 2024 season will likely don modern sportswear for their...

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

Marion Willetts Brower (1888 -1974) played a major role in many of the civic improvements undertaken by Roslynites in the early twentieth...

Born, raised, and educated in Roslyn, Hazel (Woodin) Monestel (1892-1986) taught three generations of Roslynites during her 48-year...

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

Betty Hamilton Buckhout celebrated her 100th birthday on March 23, 2022. Betty was born in Mineola Hospital (Winthrop Hospital) to...

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

When Bryant Library namesake William Cullen Bryant’s daughter, Frances (1822-1893) married Parke Godwin in 1842, she became the first in...

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

One of the most visited topics in our discussions at the Local History Collection is the Mackay Family of Harbor Hill. While much...

As we continue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the right for women to vote, Myrna Sloam, former archivist at The...

Katherine Duer Mackay, the first wife of Clarence H. Mackay, was known throughout New York’s high society circles for her beauty, charm,...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “women’s holiday houses” were large homes located in bucolic destinations where working women...

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