Bryant Library | Roslyn Local History

Mar 21, 20243 min read

Mary Frances Pearsall Lynch: Bryant Library’s first paid librarian

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

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Oct 27, 20234 min read

For most of the Bryant Library Local History Collection’s 70-year existence, access was limited to those who could visit the Library and...

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Sep 27, 20231 min read

This past Friday, September 22nd, The Bryant Library hosted an open mic poetry reading in the Gerry Park gazebo. Organized by librarians...

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Jun 16, 20232 min read

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

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May 30, 20232 min read

The Bryant Library Local History Collection was officially opened to the public seventy years ago. As reported in the Roslyn News, “about...

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Sep 27, 20222 min read

Roslyn elementary school teacher Roy W. Moger (1907-1992) is best remembered today as the author of Roslyn - Then and Now, the book that...

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Jun 18, 20222 min read

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

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Nov 2, 20212 min read

A pillar of American Romanticism, William Cullen Bryant’s greatest muse was the beauty of the natural world. His idyllic verse of...

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Oct 2, 202112 min read

One century ago, on the evening of October 2, 1921, people of all ages from Roslyn and surrounding communities gathered at the imposing...

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