We recently spent a memorable evening at the Grolier Club sharing Jupiter Hammon’s story. Professor of English, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Preservation Long Island curator, Lauren Brincat, explored the context of Jupiter’s life and writings and reflected on the challenges that modern-day readers have when interpreting his words. The lecture is now available for online viewing. ⠀
We have good news to report on the Peter Crippen house, one of our 2021 Endangered Historic Places, a rapidly deteriorating property owned by Huntington Town with strong ties to Long Island’s early colonial development and African American history.
Watch the virtual recordings. Each of the sites on the 2021 Endangered Historic Places list was showcased in a free virtual program that included interviews and panel discussions open to the public in June and July 2021.
Demolition and intensive redevelopment threaten one of Long Island’s most significant Jim Crow- and Civil Rights-era historic districts in the Village of Sag Harbor.
A rapidly deteriorating property owned by Huntington Town with strong ties to Long Island’s early colonial development and African American history.
Grant funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation will support a restoration project at the historic Rev. David Eato and Mary Baker Eato House in Setauket.