My Hometown is Roslyn, Long Island, New York
All photographs © Copyright 2010 Laura Mitchell
Colonial Building, Bryant Park, Roslyn, a.k.a The Roslyn Duck Pond
The Bryant Library
Sometime around 1980, I sat inside my hometown library in the “haute bourgeoise” town of Roslyn and read all the books they had about the student-worker near-revolution in May-June 1968 in France: books like Alain Touraine’s The Movement of May and Alfred Willener’s The Action-Image of Society.
Stream in Roslyn Duck Pond
Harold Godwin remembered
Some Roslyn history
1844: The town of Roslyn is founded.
1844: Karl Marx writes The Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
Why a duck?
Water-Powered Industry
Roslyn Wetlands
