A trio of historians at the Bryant Library in Roslyn is using a modern method to take listeners on a journey into the past by sharing their insights about the facility's local historical collection on a new podcast.
The creators of the podcast — known as “Gems from the Bryant Room” and available on Spotify — said it's an extension of the work they've been doing to digitize hundreds of records in the archive of cultural heritage materials.
The collection is filled with 19th- and 20th-century maps and atlases, photographs, postcards, original manuscripts and scrapbooks.
Reference librarian Wendy Roque said curiosity about an American flag from the 1800s with 42 stars that is framed on the wall of a library records room helped spark the idea for the podcast.
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