The Rye library’s Auxiliary Board hosted an evening of history March 21. A panel of five speakers provided fascinating facts and details about Rye’s historic sites — the Square House, Bird Homestead, Quaker Meeting House, Whitby Castle, and John Jay’s boyhood home at the Jay Heritage Center — to a packed house.
The Rye library’s Auxiliary Board hosted an evening of history March 21. A panel of five speakers provided fascinating facts and details about Rye’s historic sites — the Square House, Bird Homestead, Quaker Meeting House, Whitby Castle, and John Jay’s boyhood home at the Jay Heritage Center — to a packed house.
The speakers shared stories of the families and guests of those sites, showed photographs of the different time periods, and told of the significant steps taken by members of the Rye community to restore and preserve these sites.
