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69 items found for ""Spotlight on Educators""

  • The Roslyn Committee for Civil Rights at the March on Washington

    Roslyn residents, including members of the Roslyn Committee for Civil Rights, were among the more than one By supporting initiatives to educate and inform the public about the institutionalized racism faced by BIPOC each and every day, we put our hopes into the future that this country will one day be worthy

  • No Longer Forgotten: A Research Journey by Carolyn Brown

    Those questions were ones that only he could answer, but what child at the age of 5 would even think One day in the late 1990s while researching in the Library's archives, I came across an article that I was able to take up the helm fully once I retired from education in 2021 and set my eyes to do further

  • “Let Roslyn proclaim October 2nd as its greatest day!”

    One century ago, on the evening of October 2, 1921, people of all ages from Roslyn and surrounding communities It was the site of many educational and recreational activities, including a kindergarten program, English and citizenship classes for immigrants, a vegetable canning and drying program, and other adult education the time of its dedication, the building was envisioned as a community center that would fulfill the educational The gymnasium was rented by the Roslyn Board of Education for physical education classes.

  • Introducing The Godwin Women

    One year later, her father purchased his Roslyn Harbor homestead, Cedarmere. The sisters were educated by governesses and tutors.

  • Out of the Archives: Programming the Local History Collection

    the display for Women’s History Month in March, focusing on the ladies of these families, including one We also published a seasonally transitional blog post on one of our reference titles, Selected Poems Each visitor left with one of our handmade bookmarks. One of Roslyn High School’s most famous alumni, Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, is highlighted year's programming schedule, it is amazing to regard the Local History Collection's capability to both educate

  • The Pearsall Women: Gertrude & Marjorie

    Gertrude was one of my favorite sisters. She finished her education through eighth grade in the colored school. I remember one day when I was in the colored school and she in high school, she hurried around to meet I remember one Sunday she was wheeling me down Landing Road when she found a belt. One of them had lost the belt and didn't know it. Marjorie gave me the nickname of “Feacher”.

  • Edgar Allan Poe Reviews the Poetry of William Cullen Bryant

    The note goes on to say that “Bryant, like other of Poe’s literary acquaintances, was one of her [Mrs abstraction from all personal feelings, and with the most sincere intention to do justice, I was at one All depends upon the course of education. Bryant still living,) has two daughters, (one of them Mrs. . — I have thought that these brief personal details of one of the most justly celebrated men in America

  • The Duchess of Marlboro at the Trinity Church Fair

    nobility, especially when that individual was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, heiress to one Four years later, in 1905, she was elected to the Roslyn Board of Education. Heiress to the Vanderbilt millions, Consuelo was one of a number of American heiresses who married British Mackay was more than pleased with the way the ‘shekels’ had been accumulated and considered the fair one

  • The War Memorial Building: 1920-2020

    The cornerstone for the structure that is currently The Bryant Library was laid one hundred years ago The building had its start as a Victory Hall dedicated to the men from Roslyn who served in World War One Frederick Marquand Godwin, a great grandson of William Cullen Bryant, was one of the firm’s architects alterations on the proposed plans can be made so as to retain the essential parts of the building and yet reduce

  • A Cool Drink of Water: Roslyn’s Freshwater Springs

    Children thirsty or not could never pass by one without a lingering stop. The East Broadway spring was located on Jonathan Conklin’s property [208 East Broadway] about one hundred , many springs have been dried up and those free-flowing with a large volume have been considerably reduced

  • Narrative of a Season: William Cullen Bryant’s “November”

    This includes an ending couplet as seen in the 13th and 14th lines: Yet one rich smile, and we will try November Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air, Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds ran, Or snows One smile on the brown hills and naked trees, And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast, And the Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bear The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air.

  • Another Side of William Cullen Bryant

    Father answered – “there is only one Bryant but I’m sure my arm is black and blue, thee has squeezed do and getting on it ride up and down as rapidly as they could; in the backyard were two good sized ones Bryant used to say, “William has the two entirely separate lives, one as a writer one as the man at home

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