Books from the Society
Bohemia’s Story, in Print
Three books from the Society, drawn from our own archive and our own kitchens. Every copy sold supports the museum on Locust Avenue, the preservation of our collections, and the Society’s annual scholarship.
A History of Bohemia, Long Island
By the Centennial History Book Committee
Softcover · 80 pages
Compiled for Bohemia’s 1955 centennial, this is the community’s own account of its first hundred years — the Czech families who arrived in 1854, the farms and cigar shops they built, the churches, the fire company, the hall on Church Street. The committee gathered it from the people who had lived it, many of them children of the founders, and much of what they wrote down survives nowhere else.
$10.00
Free pickup at the museum · $7.00 postage if shipped
Memories of Bohemia
Bohemia Historical Society
Softcover · 000 pages
A collection drawn from the Society’s archive and from the people of Bohemia themselves.
$20.00
Free pickup at the museum · $7.00 postage if shipped
Simply Great Recipes
Compiled by the Bohemia Historical Society · Revised second edition
Comb-bound · 000 pages · 000 recipes
Recipes gathered from Bohemia kitchens and the families who kept them — the Czech dishes that came over with the founders, and the everyday cooking of a Long Island town that grew up around them. Comb-bound, so it lies flat on the counter while you cook.
$10.00
Free pickup at the museum · $7.00 postage if shipped
Pickup & Shipping
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Museum pickup — free
Collect your books at 1519 Locust Avenue during open hours or at any monthly meeting. We’ll email you as soon as your order is set aside. You can also buy either title at the museum with cash or check — no online order needed.
Shipping — $7.00
Anywhere in the United States by USPS Media Mail, usually out the door within a week. Multiple copies of the same title ship for one $7.00 charge. Buying more than one book, or ordering for a library or a class? Email us and we’ll send one invoice with combined shipping.
Book purchases are sales, not donations, so the purchase price is not tax-deductible. If you’d like to support the Society beyond a purchase, our donation page is here — contributions to the Bohemia Historical Society, a New York State Board of Regents–chartered 501(c)(3), are deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Questions about an order, bulk pricing, or stocking our titles in your shop or library? Email Info@BohemiaHistoricalSociety.org.