Community Corner
Book Discussion: The Long Island Reads 2014- "The Manor" By Mac Griswold
Join librarian Eric Wasserman for a lively discussion of this year’s Long Island Reads book “The Manor” from critically acclaimed author Mac Griswold. In 1984, landscape historian Griswold came across Sylvester Manor, the 1650s former plantation on Shelter Island that has been home to 11 generations of the Sylvester family. After years of painstaking research, she tells the story of one of the earliest plantations in the North, dependent for nearly two centuries upon the labor of African-American slaves, Native Americans, and indentured servants. Registration begins Wednesday, March 19th at the Reference Desk. Copies of the book will be available when you register.