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January 28, 2009:
"Abraham Lincoln and Long Island,"
Mutli-Media Presentation Commemorating the Lincoln Bicentennial
Slide show by Civil War historian and former Roslyn Landmark Society President, Harrison Hunt, Civil War piano music played by Linda Pratt during the cocktail hour, and a discussion about the relationship of Roslyn's William Cullen Bryant and Lincoln by Mr. Byant himself as portrayed by actor Frank Hendricks
Sterling Glen of Roslyn. Cash bar 6:00 p.m., Dinner 7 p.m. $20, Program 8:00 p.m. Reservations for dinner required, please call Society's Office at 516 625-4363. Lecture is free and open to the public. Please bring a friend! February 25, 2009:
The Underground Railroad in Nassau County,"
in celebration of Black History Month Author Kathleen Velsor will speak on the role various sites in Nassau County, including Roslyn and Port Washington, played in protecting runnaway slaves from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. A professor at SUNY Old Westbury, Velsor is author of the books The Underground Railroad in Queens and Beyond and Brother & Me, a young adult novel set on Long Island. Sterling Glen of Roslyn. Cash bar 6:00 p.m., Dinner 7 p.m. $20, Program 8:00 p.m. Reservations for dinner required, please call Society's Office at 516 625-4363. Lecture is free and open to the public. Please bring a friend! March 25, 2009:
"Living in Nature's Realm:
The Architecture and Decor of Historic Hudson River Villas"
by Barry Laurence Scherer, Music and Fine Arts Critic for the Wall Street Journal. Photography by Michelle Jacobs-Scherer Nineteenth-century America saw the widespread influence of Romanticism on poetry, painting and lifestyles. This influence was particularly apparent in the Romantic design of country houses, which were given the Romantic name, villas. This presentation reveals the development of those villas in the beautiful Hudson Valley, inspired by such writers as Longfellow and Washington Irving and guided by architects Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis. Combining rare period photographs and modern views, we see how villas like "Sunnyside," "Lindhurst," and "Olana" were furnished when the region was home to Washington Irving, Jay Gould, Frederick Edwin Church, the Roosevelts and the Vanderbilts. The meeting will take place at Sterling Glen of Roslyn, 100 Landing Road. Cash bar at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. $20, and program at 8 p.m. Reservations for dinner required. Please call Society's Office at 516-625-4363. The lecture is free and open to the general public. |
