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Following the Roosevelts through NYC dore Sr., helped create ... anything with a family connection I tried to chronicle in the Historian and author Bill book.” Bleyer, a for mer reporter Bleyer has spent years chronicling Long Island’s rich past, who spent decades covering but his newest book turns the Long Island and Sagamore Hill, spotlight on a family deeply first conceived of the project while visiting the woven into the fabTheodore Roosevelt ric of both the Birthplace National region and the Historic Site in nation, the RoosManhattan. After evelts. writing a book on I n “ T h e Ro o s Sagamore Hill, the evelts in New York Rough Rider’s City,” Bleyer traces beloved Oyster Bay the storied family’s home, Bleyer asked roots in Manhattan National Park Serfrom the 1600s to the vice staff if anyone modern era, docuhad written a simimenting the buildlar book about the ings, institutions E a s t 2 0 t h S t re e t and neighborhoods birthplace. No one that shaped, and had. were shaped by, one BILL BLEYER “I sort of said, of America’s most author, half-joking, ‘Well, influential dynas- “The Roosevelts maybe I’ll write it ties. The book, Bley- in New York City” for you,’” Bleyer er’s seventh, will be recalled. “’Since I released July 29. “It’s the history of the fami- did the Sagamore Hill one, this ly in Manhattan, from the first would be a logical companion settler Claes, who came over in piece’.” His editor at the History the late 1640s, right up through FDR and his family,” Bleyer Press agreed, but pushed for a said. “Anything Roosevelt-con- broader scope — not just the nected, Museum of Natural birthplace, but all Manhattan History, which his father, TheoCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Locust Valley and Oyster Bay seniors graduate Seniors from Oyster Bay and Locust Valley high schools celebrated the end of their high school careers as they look forward to beginning college, trade school, the military, and more. Above, Locust Valley seniors tossed their mortarboards in celebration. Right, Oyster Bay Valedictoran Rose Lindstrom encouraged her classmates to continue to challenge themselves. Stories, more photos, pages 3 and 10.
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f you’re interested in T.R. or Franklin, it’s cool to see where they came from, the family development.