Tag: Kings Park

The Howard School in Kings Park with Dr Tammy C. Owens

March 27, 2024
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A group of Black girls working in a kitchen.
Girls at the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School learning to bake. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL.

Dr. Tammy C. Owens of Skidmore College joins us to discuss her 2019 article “Fugitive Literati: Black Girls’ Writing as a Tool of Kinship and Power at the Howard School.” […]

Long Island’s Endangered Historic Places

December 12, 2023
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Three story lighthouse made of red brick sitting on an outcrop of black rock surrounded by water.
The Stepping Stones Lighthouse in Long Island Sound. Photo by Robert Lincoln.

Every other year, Preservation Long Island compiles a list of historic places on Long Island that are endangered. Each list is a mix of structures from different periods of time, […]