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Black History: All Aboard to Yaphank, the Great War, and Obscurity	They stand looking at the camera, their faces neutral, their armbands reading “LIRR Jamaica.” These five men from Queens are draftees, waiting at the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road...	4	08-02-2013	02-08-2013	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	History	Library	Black History Month, Buffalo Soldiers, infuenza, Jamaica, LIRR, Long Island Rail Road, racism, World War I, WWI, Yaphank	Jeremy Walsh	80	Blog entry
Happy 100th Birthday, Grand Central Terminal!	Grand Central Terminal will be celebrating its centennial all year long, and though the train station is located in Manhattan, there's a reason Queens buffs can share in the pride and...	0	07-02-2013	02-07-2013	No	MKearl	0	Read More..	Login to comment	History	Library	archives, Grand Central, Grand Central Terminal, history, Long Island City, mythology, photographs, Queens, sculptures, trains	Mary Kearl	0	Blog entry
A Ride Down Country Music’s Backroads	As of last month, New York City has a country music station again. That’s great, but the country genre has a vast and rewarding back catalog that may be more appealing than some of the...	0	07-02-2013	02-07-2013	No	jwalsh	1	Read More..	1 Comment Login to comment	Music	Library	Beatles, Country, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Gram Parsons, Jack White, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Nashville, Patsy Cline, Ringo Starr, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
Take Our Black History Tour	Queens Library houses more than a collection of works about African-American history. Our library has been shaped by, has gone to great lengths to document and continually celebrates the African-...	3.42857	15-02-2013	02-04-2013	No	MKearl	0	Read More..	Login to comment		Library	Black History, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, Lewis Latimer, Louis Armstrong, Mary Ann Shaw	Mary Kearl	68.5714	Blog entry
Black History Tour Landmark, The Archives at Queens Library	Among the items in the Archives at Queens Library’s collection of original sources, documenting the history of the four counties of Long Island, are personal correspondence, financial...	0	11-02-2013	02-04-2013	No	MKearl	1	Read More..	1 Comment Login to comment	History	Library	Black History, Black History Month, Jamaica, Lewis Latimer, newspapers	Mary Kearl	0	Blog entry