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At the Library: Meet Mac Griswold, Author of The Manor

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Meet Mac Griswold, Author of The Manor



 

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Wednesday, April 23,
7:00 p.m.



Northport Public Library

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          The Library is pleased to present an
evening with Mac Griswold, author of this year’s “Long Island Reads” selection The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave
Plantation on Long Island
. Ms. Griswold, a Long Islander, tells the
fascinating and hidden story of Sylvester Manor, the 1650s former plantation on
Shelter Island that has been home to 11 generations of the Sylvester family and
was one of the earliest plantations in the North, dependent for nearly two
centuries upon the labor of slaves. Critics have described The Manor as a “flawlessly researched book” and “a work of enormous
importance and energy, erudition and humanity.” The Christian Science Monitor called The Manor “a transcendent saga about the power of history and
place, about who we were as a people, centuries before, and how that identity
is part of who we became.”



 



         Mac Griswold is an acclaimed cultural
landscape historian and the author of Washington’s
Gardens at Mount Vernon
and The
Golden Age of American Gardens
. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal,
and Travel+Leisure.



 



Copies of The
Manor
will be available for purchase and signing.



No
registration required.

www.nenpl.org



 

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