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STATEN ISLAND’S FARMING LEGACY
Sunday, October 20 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
When seventeenth century European settlers arrived, they had difficulty planting and growing in unfamiliar territory. Fortunately, the native Lenape offered assistance. The successful agricultural community that resulted lasted until the 1950’s. Gentlemen farmers, including Frederick Law Olmsted and Dr. Samuel T. Akerly, arrived in the nineteenth century. They made significant contributions to successfully tilling the earth. Their farming traditions would be added to and complemented by the growing techniques of immigrant Italians and Greeks at the turn of the twentieth century. Discover our agricultural ancestors and how they lived off of the land.
SPEAKER
Patricia M. Salmon, FOBH Historian and a Curator of History, retired,
from the Staten Island Museum
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024, 1:00-2:30 PM
ST. ALBAN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
76 St Albans Pl, Staten Island, NY 10312
Parking is available on site.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
Registration is required.
To register, write to salmonf@aol.com