Mary Arden's Farm it through dendrochronology to c.1514. The houses and farm are presented as a "working Tudor farm". The farm keeps many rare breeds of animals including Mangalitza and Tamworth pigs, Cotswold sheep, Long Horn cattle, Baggot and Golden Guernsey goats, geese and birds of prey including a Hooded Vulture. Mary Arden's Farm Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare (née Arden), the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, the term may refer either of two houses. Both are grade
Mother Mary Louis of St. Joseph. The New York Times obituary of May 24, 1932 proclaimed Mother Mary Louis’ work of 40 years, "phenomenal." In 1934 the Sisters of St. Joseph took up plans which Mother Mary Louis had begun shortly before her illness, to build an Academy for girls in Queens County, NY. At the urging of Archbishop Thomas Molloy, the Congregation named this new Academy in memory of Mother Mary Louis. The Mary Louis Academy opened its doors in September 1936. Upon the recommendation of the New York City Council, the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of