This Women’s History Month, Chief Curator Lauren Brincat shares a powerful story from Harriet Jacobs’s (1813–1897) autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, detailing the author’s experience staying at the grand Marine Pavilion in Rockaway during the summer of 1843.
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The Pioneering Role of Women in Historic Preservation
Learn about the important role of women in early days of the historic preservation movement and how they were crucial to the founding and shaping of advocacy at Preservation Long Island.
