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Exhibition Gallery Talk:
Howard Sherwood: Preserving Long Island
July 14, 2018 at 2PM

Seventy years ago, the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities was founded. Concerned over intense post-World War II development, and influenced by heightened American patriotism, its early members sought to protect Long Island’s preindustrial past. At the Society’s center was Howard C. Sherwood, a wealthy urban antiquarian who […]