C.W. Post Photography Professor Joan Harrison Authors New Pictorial History of Glen Cove
“Glen Cove” by Arcadia Publishing scheduled for release June 23

Brookville, N.Y. – Since its founding as Musketa Cove 340 years ago, the city of Glen Cove, N.Y. has been a study in contrasts: rich and poor, urban and rural, old and new. A new book of historical images edited by a professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University illustrates the fascinating story of one of the region’s most ethnically and economically diverse communities.

"Glen Cove," by Photography Professor Joan Harrison (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99) is scheduled for publication June 23. It includes 220 photos culled from public exhibits, private collections and family albums.

“Glen Cove is really interesting, because it has everything from extreme wealth to extreme poverty and everything in between,” Harrison said. “Parts of it were rural up until the 1960s. It goes from the Quakers to one of the first Jewish communities and from industry to estates of people like the Morgans and Pratts.”

"Glen Cove" is Harrison’s first historical work, but she has been chronicling contemporary Glen Cove for seven years. The first three installments of "What We See Where We Live," a series of portfolios with 60 photos in each of modern-day Glen Cove, are on display in the Robert R. Coles History Room of the Glen Cove Public Library. Harrison’s work has been funded in part by research grants from C.W. Post.

Harrison will sign copies of "Glen Cove" at GLY Books, 35 School St., Glen Cove on Friday, June 27 at 1 p.m.; at Forest Value Books, 170 Forest Ave., Glen Cove on June 27 at 5 p.m.; at the Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce, 70 Glen St., on the afternoon of Sunday, June 29; and at a benefit event for the Landing Pride Civic Association at the St. Seraphim Russian Orthodox Church on Alvin Street on Monday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Posted: June 13, 2008