UPDATE: SCHS — Photo of the Week / 6.30.23 — ‘Ode for the Fourth of July’ by Mrs. Mary Gardiner, 1851

Photo of the Week

——— Week of July 1st, 2023 ———

FROM THE SCHS LIBRARY ARCHIVES

“How shall we know it is us without our past?”
– John Steinbeck  

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ODE for the Fourth of July

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Ode for the Fourth of July, 1851, by Mrs. Mary L. Gardiner.  Printed at The Corrector Office, Sag-Harbor. From the Collection of the Suffolk County Historical Society Library & Archives.

Mary L. Gardiner of Sag Harbor published The Prose and Poetical Writings of Mary L. Gardiner in 1843 (New York: J. Winchester, Printer), dedicating the volume to Benjamin P. Thompson, her “early friend and patron”: 

“The author of this miscellaneous collection (many parts of which have appeared in different publications), is, but to a small extent, known to fame, and possesses no inordinate ambition for distinction as a writer, beyond the limits of her native island.”

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Staff and Board of the Suffolk County Historical Society wishes you a happy and safe 4th of July holiday!

HOLIDAY CLOSURE: We will be closed on Saturday, July 1, 2023 in observance of the holiday. 

We will reopen on Wednesday, July 5 at 10:00 a.m. 

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