Stewart Donaldson (1907-1994) was born and raised on the 600+ acre Clarence H. Mackay Estate in Roslyn, which is now part of East Hills. His father, William, was a coachman and then a chauffeur, for the Mackay family from 1902 until the estate closed ... Read More
Born in 1877 in the old Roslyn Hotel that stood on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Old Northern Boulevard, Mary Pearsall Lynch (1877-1943) was a lifelong resident of Roslyn Village and served as the Bryant Library’s first paid librarian. ... Read More
For most of the Bryant Library Local History Collection’s 70-year existence, access was limited to those who could visit the Library and dedicate time to exploring our vast archives. While it is often still necessary to perform research onsite, ... Read More
This past Friday, September 22nd, The Bryant Library hosted an open mic poetry reading in the Gerry Park gazebo. Organized by librarians Wendy Roque of the Reference Department and Ariel Morabito of the Local History Collection, the event was a great ... Read More
While the members of the Roslyn High School Girls Basketball Team for the 2023 - 2024 season will likely don modern sportswear for their yearbook photo, 100 years ago, the girls of the 1923 - 1924 season wore very different attire: Inspired by ... Read More
The following post was written by Carolyn Brown, a frequent researcher at the Local History Collection who has also produced several programs for the Bryant Library. Life’s journey is filled with so many zigs and zags, twists and turns. Every day ... Read More
Over the past several years, Carolyn Brown, an accomplished theatrical performer who is native to Long Island, has shared her genealogical research journey with the Local History Collection. The descendent of Roslyn residents of Black and Indigenous ... Read More
What do you know about the Harbor Hill Light, Roslyn High School's annual yearbook? Did you know that the first yearbook was issued in 1927? The Local History Collection contains a near-complete run of these yearbooks which are available for both ... Read More
The Bryant Library Local History Collection was officially opened to the public seventy years ago. As reported in the Roslyn News, “about seventy-five residents and others interested in local history” gathered on Sunday, May 31, 1953, for the ... Read More
“We heard a critic remark that no great sonnets are being written nowadays.” This editorial statement opens Christopher Morley’s “The Permanence of Poetry”, an essay from his variegated collection of musings, Plum Pudding. In response to such ... Read More
