The Patchogue-Medford Library has been offered funding from the Medford Hamlet Foundation to build a library branch/community center in Medford. In addition, the Town of Brookhaven has offered property within the Medford Athletic Complex on … [Continue reading]
PatchChords: The Music Of Outer Space
In celebration of Long Island Reads, PatchChords examines the music of outer space. Outer space conjures up many images - danger, nothingness, a deadly vacuum, a new frontier to be explored, eerie mystery, the twinkle of the … [Continue reading]
Women Sharing Art, Inc. Embraces Women’s History Month All March Long
For the month of March, we are celebrating Women's History Month with a group exhibit by Women Sharing Art, Inc. Titled Women Sharing Art, Inc. Embraces Women's History Month, the display features paintings, photos, mosaics and more from 15 members … [Continue reading]
Digital PML: New Photos Added To The “Patchogue & Medford Miscellanous Historical Photos Collection”
A new group of photographs of Patchogue and Medford has been added to Digital PML's Patchogue & Medford Miscellanous Historical Photos Collection, including photographs of First Grade and graduating classes of Patchogue's … [Continue reading]
New Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Website
The Library has published a brand-new website for the Celia M. Hastings Local History Room, https://history.pmlib.org, showing the Room, its collections, its services, its policies, and its history, and with a scope including the history of … [Continue reading]
PatchChords: African-American History Month
In honor of African-American History Month, PatchChords examines the life of Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh (1866-1949). Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh (1866-1949) Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in … [Continue reading]
February 24th, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM, “Civil Rights and Racism on Long Island, a Brief History (1950-1980)”
Click here to register for the program Five trailblazing panelists will talk about and answer questions related their battles in integrating Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Moderated by Paul Arfin, author of “Unfinished Business: Social Action in … [Continue reading]
“Flowers in Abstract” now on view in Lower Level Lobby
It's starting to feel like Spring down in the library. Now on view is the Lower Level Lobby is Flowers in Abstract, a solo exhibit featuring the photography of Clarence Simpson. The exhibit features a series of floral photographs that occupy the … [Continue reading]
African American Family History Research
February is Black History Month and thus a good time to examine the records available to those doing African-American family history research. The basics of doing U.S. based genealogy research requires working back from yourself a generation at a … [Continue reading]
Child Empowerment Here At The Library
Here at the Patchogue-Medford Library, our current newsletter has a running theme of “empowerment.” Most people do not automatically think of children when they hear that word but childhood is a great place to start planting those tools into a … [Continue reading]