Showing posts with label Notable New Rochelleans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notable New Rochelleans. Show all posts
Thursday, June 9, 2022

A Skeleton Key to Reading

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The first general catalogue of the New Rochelle Public Library was published in 1897; in it there were but four books listed on the subject ...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

The Land of Enchantment: Exploring the Norman Rockwell Museum

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Did you know the Library owns an original Norman Rockwell painting? This treasured piece of art is now on view in the Norman Rockwell Museum...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Do You Rhumba?

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Castle Society Dance Folio Do you rhumba? Groucho Marx famously asked this question in the zany movie A Night at the Opera . Groucho took s...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Two African American Philanthropists of New Rochelle

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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) stands as one of the most successful philanthropies in American history. Its incisive slogan – a mind i...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

A Tribute to the League of Women Voters of New Rochelle

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A Tribute to the League of Women Voters of New Rochelle  August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendme...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Seven Things You Might Know about Carl Reiner, The Dick Van Dyke Show and New Rochelle

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Remarks by Barbara Davis, City Historian at the 2018 event for the honorary re-naming of Bonnie Meadow Road to Dick Van Dyke Way ...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Benjamin Eli Smith and the Simplified Spelling Board

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The Simple Speller booklet At the turn of the 19th century the citizens of New Rochelle were graced by the presence of a scholar who...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

New Rochelle Birthdays - April 28: Robert Woodruff Anderson and Jay Leno!

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Robert Woodruff Anderson Robert Woodruff Anderson, leading playwright, screenwriter and producer, is probably best-remembered as the ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Woody Woodpecker's Roots in New Rochelle - 120 Years Ago Today

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Walter Benjamin Lantz Walter Benjamin Lantz, animator, producer and director, was born on April 27, 1900 in New Rochelle, New York to I...
Friday, April 17, 2020

New Rochelle: Home to Baseball Hall of Famers - Mariano Rivera

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Last, but not least in our series of Baseball Hall of Famers with ties to New Rochelle: Mariano Rivera! "Raised in the Panamanian...