New in Special Collections: Pioneering Journalist Jane Howard Perkins
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Special Collections is highlighting its collections of trailblazing and pioneering women. Jane Howard Perkins (1912-2011) was a resident of Old Field, Setauket, NY. She studied archaeology at Radcliffe (Harvard) and participated in early excavations at Chichen Itza, a complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico’s Yucatán