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Jan 9, 20211 min read

It's Word Nerd Day!

Upon learning that today, January 9th, is known to a national audience as Word Nerd Day, we can’t help but identify our dear Mr. Morley...

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Dec 30, 20205 min read

In January 2011, a recollection of holiday memories from early LHC donor Stewart Donaldson appeared in the Bryant Library Newsletter with...

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Dec 23, 20206 min read

As the dear patrons of our little blog know, the Bryant Library’s Local History Collection contains a veritable trove of Christopher...

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Nov 23, 20202 min read

If you grew up in Long Island, there’s a good chance that you learned about “Indian wampum,” the traditional Native American beads that...

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Nov 11, 20202 min read

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 1918, the nation celebrated the end of World War I,...

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Nov 3, 20202 min read

November 3rd, 2020, marks the 226th anniversary of William Cullen Bryant's birthday. In his 67th year, Bryant wrote The Third of...

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Oct 30, 20205 min read

From time to time, our Local History Collection staff likes to poll the library community about what they would like to see from our...

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Oct 23, 20202 min read

The cornerstone for the structure that is currently The Bryant Library was laid one hundred years ago, on October 24, 1920. The building...

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Oct 13, 20202 min read

Though the majority of the holdings of The Local History Collection (LHC) are in the form of photographs, manuscripts, and other paper...

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Sep 23, 20202 min read

One of the most renowned figures in Latin American literature, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, spent the last four years of her life...

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