The St. Lawrence-Lewis School Library System collection consists of high school yearbooks from area high schools. The Tatler is the annual yearbook of the Massena Central School.

On January 18th, 1953, the Massapequa Public Library opened its doors for the first time. It was a small rented storefront library located on 526 Broadway, Massapequa, at what is the current site of Broadway Pizza. The library received a generous donation of land from the Bar Harbour Shopping Centre, Inc., in 1959. The Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Bar Harbour Library Building was held in April of 1964, and dedication ceremonies were held on June 13th, 1965.

Port Washington is a hamlet located on the northshore area of Long Island in Nassau County. Port Washington was a sand-mining town in the late nineteenth century, having the largest known sandbank east of the Mississippi River. The sand from Port Washington was used to make concrete for some of the New York skyscrapers that are still around today, including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.

Mary Douglass Burnham (1832-1904) was a Deaconess, Director of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Central New York, founder of the Dakota League, and live-in House Mother, Superintendent, and Treasurer of Current Receipts for the House and Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse. She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on May 13, 1832 and in 1852 married Wesley Burnham, who worked in the sugar cane industry on the Sandwich Islands. She founded and was the president of the Dakota League in 1864, which supported Episcopal mission work among indigenous nations and was the predecessor organization to the Women’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions that formed in 1871. She established the Women’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Central New York and became a deaconess in 1876, in addition to becoming the Head of the Diocesan Deaconess Order and Superintendent of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd. After visiting St. Augustine, Florida in 1878, she persuaded Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington to seek the transfer of David Pendleton Oakerhater of the Cheyenne Nation from the prison at Fort Marion to Central New York. He became an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church and served for 50 years in the ministry in Oklahoma. She then went to Boston and became the superintendent of the Home for Incurables and the president of the Diocesan Woman’s Auxiliary. In 1892, she moved to Yonkers, New York and became the superintendent of St. John’s Hospital. At the end of her life, she was a hostess of a home for visiting missionaries in New York City, where she died on December 26, 1904.

Marty Himes, born August 29th, 1939 in Oceanside, Long Island, moved to the Freeport area in 1952. In 1962 Himes became the Novice track champion. Marty Himes has dedicated much of his time and money into gathering and preserving this huge collection of racing memorabilia. He hopes that his collection will remain preserved for many generations to come. When he opened his home display in 1975, his entire life and finances have been dedicated to keeping the memory of racing alive. He currently runs the the Himes Museum of Motor Racing Nostalgia in Bayport, NY.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens(1835 - 1910), also known under the pen name Mark Twain, was a well-known American author and humorist. He was raised in Missouri and spent a great deal of time travelling. He is buried at his wife’s family plot at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York.

Maris B. Pierce was born at “Old Town” on the Allegany Reservation in 1811, the son of John Pierce. During his youth, he attended a Quaker school on the reservation. Later he was sent to the Fredonia Academy by his father, and then attended 2 years at the Academy in Homer, New York.
After his early education, Pierce went to Thetford, Vermont, to study and prepare for college. In 1836, at the age of 25, he entered Dartmouth College, becoming a part of the first generation of college educated Haudenosaunee. The year before graduating, Pierce was appointed as one of the four Seneca attorneys representing the Tonawanda, Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Buffalo Creek Reservations in Washington, D.C. Pierce fought the Treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838 and assisted in its renegotiation in 1842. After graduating college, he settled on the Buffalo Creek Reservation and continued his advocacy against the removal of Seneca from their lands.
Pierce was appointed as the U.S. interpreter between the federal government and the Seneca Nation. In 1843, he married Mary Jane Carrol of Utica, daughter of a British Officer, and they had four children. After the Buffalo Creek Reservation was dissolved in 1842 and the Indians were pushed out, Pierce and his family moved to the Cattaraugus Reservation. Pierce and his wife became advocates and were active in the schools on the reservation, dedicating much of their time to teaching.
Pierce was continually relied on by his fellow Native Americans for his sound judgement and good sense of managing their affairs. He was involved in other important issues including fighting the illegal cutting and removal of timber from reservation lands, conducting censuses, and properly advocating for better education on the reservations.
Pierce, or “Ha-dya-no-doh” (Swift Runner), died at his residence on the Cattaraugus Reservation on August 9, 1874 at the age of 65. Mary J. Pierce donated her husband’s materials to the Buffalo Historical Society in October of 1884.