One of the few structures from the Harbor Hill Estate that remain standing is the Dairyman’s Cottage,

Dated from April of 1847, which was considered one of the deadliest years of the Famine, this first letter

Stewart Donaldson, one of the early contributors to our collection, compiled typewritten pages copied

As the summer winds to a close, Labor Day weekend brings a chance for one last summer road trip.

National Poetry Month is upon us, which calls to mind the works of one of our most treasured library

Room (which later became the Bryant Library) and as an early resident of Roslyn Harbor, Bryant was one Throughout this time, however, he was still writing poetry and had completed “To a Waterfowl,” one of That same year, Bryant’s father submitted two of Bryant’s poems, one of which was “Thanatopsis,” to the —Being one of the editors of the work, though not a proprietor, I feel some anxiety that it should have

Today one hundred sixty years later, we honor Bryant’s vision. A New Public Park by William C. We should be glad to see one small part of the shore without them, one place at least where the tides

In 1860, he was one of the founders of the New York Medical College, where he then served as President My breakfast is a simple one—hominy and milk, or in place of hominy, brown bread, or oat meal, or wheaten

High-handed villany takes its adversaries, one after another, by the throat, and strangles them in detail public affairs shall be frugally and wisely administered, if they can only be brought to combine with one purpose and one system of action. Let me not be told that if we keep one set of rogues out of office another will be sure to have their That is the moral of an old fable of Aesop, but the moral is a false one.