Shawyn Patterson-Howard, the mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, is pictured in front of City Hall. On Nov. 5, 2019, Mayor Patterson-Howard was elected the first female mayor in the history of the ...

That somewhere was the historic Mount Vernon Public Library, one of the libraries started through an endowment by Andrew Carnegie, many of which are in New York City. The library was chartered in ...

The West Front of Mount Vernon, by Edward Savage ... “Those voices were unsung up until 1799, and we don’t have any pictures or voice recordings of what they had to say.