Nicholas Dean is a 2026 Fellow at the Three Village Historical Society & Museum through the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation's Semiquincentennial Fellowship Program. A rising sophomore at Stony Brook University, Nicholas is pursuing a degree in History with a concentration in empire, violence, and global connectivity. His academic interests focus primarily on Early Modern Europe, with a secondary emphasis on the post-colonial development of the United States. During his

Nearly 400 fourth-grade students stepped out of the classroom and into history this spring as part of the Three Village Historical Society & Museum's annual Founders Day program, a longstanding partnership with the Three Village Central School District that has connected generations of young people with the story of their community. Students gathered at Setauket Elementary. Photo by Rob Pellegrino Held on April 21 and 22, this year's program welcomed 386 students and 37 teach

Back-to-School Season… even in the late 19th century! This week’s archival find is The Franklin Fifth Reader by George Stillman Hillard, c. 1878, a textbook used in public and private American classrooms to teach reading, rhetoric, and public speaking. Inside this fifth-grade reader, we discovered a handwritten poem by a young student. An inscription on the front reads: “Yeate Terry, Patchogue, LI.” Tucked into the book was a loose sheet of paper, a poem likely written by the