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The Bryant Room Blog
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
Celebrating the New Year With The Speedling's
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
A Christopher Morley Christmas
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
What's Up With Wampum?
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
Armistice Day 11/11/1918 - Veterans Day 11/11/2020
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
Happy Birthday Bryant!
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
Ghosts of the Bryant Room
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 War Memorial Building: 1920-2020
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
A Tale of Two Spoons: Heirlooms from the Ramsauer Collection
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
Gabriela Mistral: The Poet-Diplomat of Chile
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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