Posted on May 24, 2022 by ArtsWestchester Aaron: How did Juneteenth in New Rochelle first come together?  Linda Tarrant-Reid:Last year we went to the City of New Rochelle to ask them if they would partner with us to do a Juneteenth celebration. They thought it was a great idea. The year before, they had done a flag raising […]

The Cultural Landscape Foundation Since its founding nearly one hundred years before the Revolutionary War, New Rochelle, New York has undergone several transformations. Variously a colony for Huguenot refugees, a hotbed for abolitionist movements, a hub of European immigration, and a classic American suburb, New Rochelle’s diversity and proximity to New York City have induced […]

By Paul W. Zuber | Empire Report | January 21, 2021 When most of us think about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, we tend to think of places like Selma and Montgomery in Alabama, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of us do not realize that the State of New York had its own long-standing struggles with […]

by Michael Woyton, Patch Staff There is a little bit of farm in Lincoln Park in New Rochelle. The grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden is coming along nicely, thanks to a surfeit of rain. Linda Tarrant-Reid, one of the garden’s original organizers, said people usually water every other day. “You don’t need to water today,” […]

A group of dedicated community members have finally seen the fruits of their year long labor.  grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden (grow!LPCG) committee members Linda Tarrant-Reid, Camille Edwards-Thomas, Wendy Henry-Dodds, and Karen Hessel spearheaded the construction of a sustainable, organic legacy garden that is now a reality on the site of the former Lincoln Elementary […]