Lucinda Manning grew up in small rural towns in Kansas and Oklahoma during the 1950s and ‘60s. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma and then moved to the east coast for graduate school. A resident of Ossining since 1988, she previously lived in Boston and Providence before moving from Brooklyn to Ossining with her husband, John Mingle — a commercial loan underwriter —and their daughter Emily — now a college student in Boston.
Lucinda has worked as both a professional archivist and librarian since 1980 in various historical societies, and in college and university libraries, including URI, NYU, Barnard, and Teachers College at Columbia University. For twelve years, she directed the UFT Archives & Records Center for the United Federation of Teachers labor union in NYC.
More recently, she has been the Curator of Archives for the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and the Archivist for the National Office of the ACLU in NYC. Her academic background includes a degree in journalism/graphic design; graduate study in U.S. history (with an emphasis on 19th and 20th C. social change movements); and an MLS in academic libraries and special collections from the University of Rhode Island.