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Omnibus #36

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007. Total length: 19:15

Dowling alum Pam Manuel Siemsen ('85, '04) relates the history of Pepperidge Hall, the late 19th century estate that eccentric millionaire Christopher Robert imported from France and reassembled overlooking the Great South Bay in Oakdale. Pam and her husband Glenn also take us on a tour of their neighborhood, retracing the grounds of the old estate and discussing how it was slowly erased from memory. Also, Dowling student Kimberly Margolis reads "Ghost House" by Robert Frost.

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"...no one ever really lived here after [Christopher] Robert left."
Pam Manuel-Siemsen

Shownotes with related links:

0:05 Introduction
Chris Kretz - Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian
2:31 The History of Pepperidge Hall
Pam Manuel Siemsen and Glenn Siemsen
- Oakdaleny.com
- Pepperidge Hall at Spooner Central
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), American Memory Project, Library of Congress
  - Photo of Fireplace
  - Photo of Fireplace
- Films shot on location at Pepperidge Hall (filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database )
  - My Lady's Slipper (1916)
  - To Hell With the Kaiser! (1918)
  - Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
- Index to the Long Island Forum from Patchogue-Medford Library
- Along the Great South Bay by Harry Havemeyer, 1996
  Find in a library via Open World Cat
17:50 "Ghost House"
Dowling student Kimberly Margolis reads this Robert Frost poem.

Interior courtyard of Pepperidge Hall, circa 1923.
Dowling College Historic Oakdale digital collection

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