Something lovely for the New Year from Brooklyn Photographer Etienne Frossard:
December, 2008
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Vanity Fair: Oral History of the Bush White House
I don’t think I can bring myself to read this just yet but Vanity Fair just published Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House which is bound to be interesting if you can stomach it.
image courtesy of vanityfair.com
Bowery Boys Blog Brooklyn Too
The Bowery Boys gave us a shout out on their blog today in a post about Mayor George Hall. They admit to being a little Manhattan-centric so cheers for the Brooklyn post! And I just listened to their fun podcast about Green-Wood Cemetery.
Interestingly, one of the first people we interviewed when our Oral History Program began in 2006 was Charles Hamm whose grandfather commissioned the statue of Minerva who stands in Green-Wood Cemetery keeping watch on the Statue of Liberty.
image courtesy of the bowery boys
It’s Happening in Brooklyn!
BHS’s exhibit, It Happened in Brooklyn, has been drawing great attendance from NYC public school kids. You may not have known that BHS education staff was part of the Task Force that developed the Scope & Sequence curriculum guide used by Social Studies teachers throughout the city.
It Happened in Brooklyn was designed to directly link up to what the kids are learning in class. Kids love the big map on the floor and the musket, but they’re also fascinated by the slave bill of sale for a transaction that happened right here in Brooklyn.
Zinn at Studs Terkel’s Memorial
Image courtesy of nytimes.com
That’s Brooklynite Howard Zinn speaking at a memorial for Studs Terkel held this past Sunday at Cooper Union. First nasty cold of the season kept me from attending, sadly, otherwise I’d have more to report!