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Apr 22, 20221 min read
Earth Week 1972
50 years ago today, the Roslyn Environmental Association held an awareness event here at the Bryant Library promoting what we now refer...
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Mar 24, 20221 min read
Happy 100th Birthday to Betty Hamilton Buckhout!
Betty Hamilton Buckhout celebrated her 100th birthday on March 23, 2022. Betty was born in Mineola Hospital (Winthrop Hospital) to...
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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 31, 20222 min read
Winter in Roslyn: Recollection of Stewart W. Donaldson
In 1968, Stewart Donaldson (1907-1994) wrote of boyhood memories of winter fun in Roslyn in the early decades of the twentieth century:...
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Jan 3, 20223 min read
Another Side of William Cullen Bryant
When William Cullen Bryant and his wife, Frances, purchased the Roslyn Harbor property that would become Cedarmere in 1843, they became...
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Jan 3, 20223 min read
Bryant Congratulates Abraham Lincoln
In this current presidential election year it is fitting to recall another significant American election. In 1860, noted journalist and...
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Jan 3, 20227 min read
Edgar Allan Poe Reviews the Poetry of William Cullen Bryant
Excerpted from Edgar Allan Poe’s April 1846 lengthy analysis of the publication of The Complete Poetical Works of W. C. Bryant, the...
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