As warm days come around more often in the last couple weeks of the semester, the Ballard Institute of Puppetry is offering a way to spend this coming weekend outside with bright puppets, exciting activities and powerful art. On April 20 and 21, “I am the Village: A Puppet Pageant Celebrating the Life and Art…
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Riverhead Town designates sixteen acres as Bell Town Heritage Area Pattie Bell, the wife of Mansfield Bell, and mother of Rev. Mary Bell Cooper. Right: Melkiah Bell, one of four brothers who bought 16 acres on the north side of Hubbard Avenue. (Courtesy photos)
In the 1930s, four brothers, the sons of a self-taught Black farmer and the grandsons of slaves hailing from Powhatan County in Virginia, made the move to Aquebogue.
They joined millions of African Americans migrating from the South to the North in search of better lives.
They were part of the “Great Migration,” a movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest and West between 1916 and 1970.