My Hometown is Roslyn, Long Island, New York
All photographs © Copyright 2010 Laura Mitchell
Colonial Building, Bryant Park, Roslyn, L.I., N.Y
Colonial Building, Bryant Park, Roslyn, a.k.a The Roslyn Duck Pond
The Bryant Library
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
Stream in Roslyn Duck Pond
Harold Godwin and the first paper mill in New York State
Harold Godwin remembered
Roslyn was founded in 1844
Some Roslyn history
1844: The town of Roslyn is founded.
1844: Karl Marx writes The Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
20th generation descendents of ducks that I saw when I was in nursery school
Why a duck?
Bryant Park, Roslyn
Water-Powered Industry
Roslyn Wetlands
Roslyn Wetlands
Equal opportunity for geese