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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mac-griswold/the_manor.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mac-griswold/the_manor_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The Manor" alt ="The Manor"/></a><br//>The extraordinary story of a Long Island plantation across three centuries and eleven generations<BR><BR>In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow mansion and a garden guarded by hulking boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--were hundreds of years old. And so was the house, Sylvester Manor, held in the same family for eleven generations.<BR>     When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, like the 1666 charter for the land and a letter from Thomas Jefferson. But most remarkable--and most disturbing--was what the aged owner, Andrew Fiske, casually called the "slave staircase," which would reveal the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery.<BR>     Years after her tour, Griswold could not let go of the house and its many secrets, and she began to research the family that gave the property its name....]]></description>
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