Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 7:30pm

By Robert Marchant, an author and journalist who has delved into the history of Westchester County. Marchant is currently a staff writer for Greenwich Time magazine and for many years covered Westchester for Gannett Newspapers. His recent book is entitled "Westchester-History of an Iconic Suburb". For over a decade he has spent hundreds of hours doing research at the Westchester archives and in libraries across the region. He chronicled how the archetypal suburb was imagined, how it was built and populated. Did you know about the extensive influence that mobster Dutch Schultz had in Yonkers and that he and his associates pumped a stream of beer under the streets during Prohibition. Marchant will reveal defining moments in the county's past. There is extensive information about Yorktown; e.g., a big auto road race in 1908 ran through Yorktown.

Marchant's research reveals a complex portrait of the county that upends conventional ideas about Westchester and its history. Interwoven with the chronicle of how the archetypal suburb was imagined, built and populated are much darker moments in its past, including the mass murder of an entire Native American village, Jim Crow segregation, cross burnings, a Nazi rally at The