Donald Ryder, architect of Black heritage sites, dies at 94
By Sam Roberts New York Times,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Donald Ryder (center), along with J. Max Bond Jr., (left) and Nathan Smith circa 1969. Ryder, whose firm Bond Ryder & Associates designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nationâs most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died on Feb. 17.VIA DAVIS BRODY BOND, LLP/NY
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nationâs most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, New York. He was 94.
Donald P. Ryder, Architect of Black Heritage Sites, Dies at 94
His firm, which he formed with J. Max Bond Jr., designed public works commemorating the civil rights movement as well as the Schomburg Center in Harlem.
The architects Donald P. Ryder, center, J. Max Bond Jr., left, and Nathan Smith in about 1969. Mr. Ryder and Mr. Bond’s New York firm designed prominent repositories of Black culture and social history. Credit.via Davis Brody Bond, LLP
April 14, 2021Updated 3:55 p.m. ET
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation’s most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died on Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 94.
Prosecutor: Ex-Greenwich police sergeant who was addicted to heroin pleads guilty to federal gun charge
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Joseph Ryan retired from the GPD in July 2019. A Trumbull resident, he pleaded guilty Monday to a federal gun charge./ Greenwich Police Department
GREENWICH A former Greenwich police sergeant pleaded guilty in federal court to taking part in a scheme to illegally transfer weapons to his drug dealer, who was also a convicted felon, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Joseph Ryan, a 57-year-old Trumbull resident who retired from the Greenwich Police Department in July 2019 after a 33-year career, entered the guilty plea in a New Haven courtroom Monday.
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My paternal great-grandmother Violet May Carroll McHale was born in 1906 in Castlebar, Mayo, and raised as a farmer’s daughter. She and her sisters (Delia, Lucy, and Jane) did much of the grunt work that was usually reserved for males, since their father Martin had a bad leg and couldn’t do it on his own. Violet eventually had to leave school completely at about age 10 to help keep the farm going with jobs like cutting peat and bringing in the potato crop.
When Martin died in 1920, their mother Sarah sold the farm, and the women made their way to America under the sponsorship of Bill Elliott, as his part in a marriage arranged between him and Delia (or “Geenie”), the oldest. They settled in Brooklyn on Fulton Street, in a tenement where the subway ran just outside their window. Grieved, homesick, and fragile after a weeks-long voyage in steerage, Sarah did not last long in their new home, and died soon after arriving.