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As one of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island has a rich and colorful past, and it is full of places where people have shaped the city, state and nation. To commemorate its 350th anniversary, local community leaders and educators have gathered together this unprecedented collection. Walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Langston Hughes, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Dalai Lama; visit Revolutionary War sites; relive the entrepreneurial drive and inventiveness of business and medical pioneers; and imagine the lives of Irish, Norwegian, Italian, Sri Lankan and Liberian immigrants. Its shores are awash in history, from Lenape trails to Dutch and French farms, from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company to legendary sports figures and quaint historic districts. Their struggles, hardships, triumphs and achievements, in spectacular and everyday Staten Island locations, are brought to life.

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Patricia Tooker, assistant professor and director of Undergraduate Nursing Studies at Wagner College, received her BSN, MSN and FNP from Wagner College. Andrew Wilson has been a librarian at the New York Public Library for over twenty years in Staten Island and Manhattan. He has a bachelor's of arts in history from Lafayette College and a master's degree in library science from the University of South Florida. Charles L. Sachs is former senior curator of the New York Transit Museum and chief curator at the Staten Island Historical Society. He is author of Made on Staten Island: Agriculture, Industry, and Suburban Living in the City (1988) and numerous articles on the history and material culture of Staten Island and the metropolitan region. Christopher Mulé serves as director of folk life and deputy director for the Council on the Arts & Humanities on Staten Island (COAHSI). He holds a master's degree in folklore and ethnomusicology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Lori Weintrob, chair and associate professor of history at Wagner College, is co-chair of si350, Inc., and coauthor (with Phillip Papas) of Port Richmond (2009). Meg Ventrudo, executive director of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, received a master's of arts in history from George Mason University. She was born and raised on Staten Island. Jay Price, a longtime columnist for the Staten Island Advance, is the author of Thanksgiving 1959, a chronicle of life and sports on Staten Island. Jessica R. Kratz, Greenbelt Nature Center coordinator and a past Department of Environmental Conservation Camp scholarship recipient, has found a muse and a life path along woodland trails. James A. Kaser, professor and archivist at the College of Staten Island/ CUNY, earned a doctorate in American studies from Bowling Green State University and is the author of three books. Barnett Shepherd, an independent architectural historian and local history author, was executive director of the Staten Island HS.

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