Stacy Schiff The Eighteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture featured Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Best-Selling Author Stacy Schiff discussing The Salem Witch Trials: What Really Happened and Why It Matters in 21st century America. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Best-Selling Author Stacy Schiff will present the Eighteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture on April 15, 2016, 8pm. She will...Read More
Linda Greenhouse and Mo Rocca Breaking with the traditional format of one guest speaker, the Nineteenth Annual Brendan Gill Lecture featured Pulitzer Prize-Winning Supreme Court Expert Linda Greenhouse and CBS Correspondent Mo Rocca In Conversation on the Supreme Court, past and present. Rocca’s clever, quick wit found an equally engaging partner in Greenhouse. Their conversation...Read More
Michael Beschloss and Mo Rocca Discuss Leadership and the Presidency to the Delight of a Full House. It may take historians 30-40 years before they can fully and fairly assess a presidency, but it only took 90 minutes at the 20th Annual Brendan Gill Program for Mo Rocca and Michael Beschloss, with their combined scholarship...Read More
June 14, 2019 [Contact: Ellen de Saint Phalle, Bronxville Historical Conservancy Board Member, ECDSAINT@GMAIL.COM] 21st Annual Brendan Gill Lecture Reveals Kennedy’s Moxy, American Can-Do Spirit, and Billions of Dollars Launched America’s First Man on the Moon. by Ellen de Saint Phalle, Bronxville Historical Conservancy Board Member Presidential Historian and Award-winning author Douglas Brinkley presented the...Read More
By Lorraine Shanley, Member, Board of Trustees, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy On Friday, March 6, 2020, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy hosted Jill Lepore, Harvard University professor and author of the bestselling These Truths: A History of the United States, at Sarah Lawrence’s Reisinger Auditorium. President Cristle Collins Judd welcomed the audience to the campus and...Read More
More than 200 people gathered to hear David Rubenstein deliver the 23rd Brendan Gill Lecture on April 29, 2022 in the Barbara Walters Campus Center. President Cristle Collins Judd welcomed the Bronxville Historical Conservancy (BHC) membership and friends to the first greater community gathering at the College since 2019. BHC Co-Chair William Zambelli, in his...Read More
Mix 70,000 LEGO bricks with 50 Bronxville families, and a quiet Sunday afternoon becomes an engaging lesson in local architecture. In an event on January 21 sponsored by The Bronxville Historical Conservancy (“BHC”), the groups used LEGO bricks to construct replicas of Bronxville buildings. Parents and children worked together at tables in the main gym...Read More
PEOPLES UNITED BANK HONORED WITH FIRST BRONXVILLE HISTORICAL CONSERVANCY PRESERVATION AWARD At their final meeting for 2015, the Bronxville Historical Conservancy presented their first Bronxville Historical Conservancy Preservation Award to Peoples United Bank for their restoration of the 1920s Gramatan National Bank clock. The award was created to honor individuals, organizations, and businesses that have...Read More
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 The Bronxville Historical Conservancy is pleased to announce its 2016 Preservation Award will be awarded to the Restoration of Prescott Farm Gate Lodge, Historic Headquarters of Lawrence Enterprises. The project was submitted by Houlihan Lawrence for their recent restoration of 4 Valley Road. The award will be presented this evening to representatives...Read More
The Bronxville Public Library art collection was the recipient of the 2017 Preservation Award presented on December 13 at the Conservancy’s annual membership meeting and holiday reception at Siwanoy Country Club. Established in 2015, the Preservation Award recognizes excellence in preservation, restoration, and conservation in the Village of Bronxville. Projects eligible for consideration include architectural...Read More
