Join Us for the Premiere of "The Village: The History of Downtown Scarsdale"
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The Scarsdale Historical Society will be premiering its newest documentary, The Village: A History of Downtown Scarsdale, at the Scarsdale Public Library on Tuesday, May 14th at 6:15 PM and 7:30 PM. The half-hour film explores how Scarsdale’s business district grew from a humble train depot and a few wooden buildings to the iconic Tudor-style commercial center we have today.
The Village will take viewers on a journey spanning more than 200 years, beginning with a colonial-era mill on the Bronx River. Archival photographs capture the development of Scarsdale’s earliest businesses and “downtown” streets, when horses clip-clopped on dusty roads. The film chronicles the factors that contributed to Scarsdale’s suburbanization, and the prominent, community-minded residents that developed the business district that still stands today.
Following the screening there will be a Q&A with the film’s participants: village historians Jordan Copeland and Leslie Chang, filmmaker Lesley Topping and Peter Blier from Scarsdale Central Taxi.
This half- hour documentary is directed and edited by local filmmaker Lesley Topping. It is part of an ongoing series from the Scarsdale Historical Society on the history and neighborhoods of Scarsdale. All the previous films can be viewed at https://www.scarsdalehistoricalsociety.org/videos.
Admission to the film is free. The event is sponsored by the Scarsdale Historical Society, the Scarsdale Public Library and the Scarsdale Business Alliance.
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