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Author Stacy Schiff to Speak about the Salem Witch Trials at Annual Brendan Gill Lecture April 15


By Ellen de Saint Phalle, Member, Board of Directors, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy


Feb. 3, 2016:  The Bronxville Historical Conservancy will host Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and best-selling author Stacy Schiff at the 2016 Annual Brendan Gill Lecture on April 15 at 8:00 pm in the Reisinger Auditorium on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College. 

Schiff, author of The Witches: Salem, 1692, will present a lecture titled "The Salem Witch Trials: What Really Happened and Why It Matters in 21st-Century America." The community is invited to register for this free program by contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or calling 914-961-6780.

Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, as well as of Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, awarded the George Washington Book Prize, and Cleopatra: A Life, a number-one bestseller. 

She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as an Arts and Letters Award in Literature (formerly Academy Award) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2011 she was named a Library Lion of the New York Public Library. 

Now in its eighteenth year, the Brendan Gill Lecture was established as a gift to the larger Bronxville community and is one of the many programs the conservancy offers to increase awareness of the village's history and appreciation of its rich culture. The event honors former Bronxville resident Brendan Gill, who was called by architecture critic Paul Goldberger "the greatest public citizen of our time in the realm of architecture, planning, and historic preservation."

Pictured here:  Author Stacy Schiff.

Photo courtesy Stacy Schiff

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Bronxville is a quaint village (one square mile) located just 16 miles north of midtown Manhattan (roughly 30 minutes on the train) and has a population of approximately 6,500. It is known as a premier community with an excellent public school (K-12) and easy access to Manhattan. Bronxville offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library.

While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive with art shows and other events for neighbors.

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