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 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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Aug 12, 20213 min read
The Pearsall Women: Marion Peters Pearsall
Born to William and Margaret Peters in 1920 in Roslyn, NY, Marion Peters Pearsall was the first wife of Eugene Arrell Pearsall, whose...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
☆★☆ The Answer is: 42 ☆★☆
Donations to the Local History Collection take all forms. Though photographs and documents are our most-received items, our holdings...
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Jun 18, 20213 min read
Juneteenth Jubilation
The Bryant Library Local History Collection celebrates Juneteenth, our country’s newest federal holiday, by remembering some of the...
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Mar 22, 20213 min read
The Pearsall Women: Ethel Pearsall Birch
E. Arrell Pearsall's serial memoir This Is My Life is a formidable work written expressly for the Bryant Library Local History...
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Feb 26, 202111 min read
The Other Side of the Coin: African Americans in Roslyn
By Carol L. Clarke Archivist, The Bryant Library For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater...
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Jul 29, 20205 min read
The Pearsall Women: Gertrude & Marjorie
For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater Roslyn community. Despite being constrained by...
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