Well, this is just awesome:
Here are two videos of the band Saffire playing at BHS for the Make Music New York festival last spring. Saffire is an all-girl rock band from Nyack, New York — two sets of multi-instrumentalist sisters who play original music.
Miss Genevieve Ebbets at Ebbets Field, April 5, 1913; photo courtesy of Library of Congress, Flickr The Commons
The Brooklyn Historical Society invites you to share your experiences of Ebbets Field and your memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
This is an exclusive opportunity to share your story and have it archived as part of the BHS oral history collection. Your interview may also be included in BHS’s upcoming exhibit about Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers, opening on June 3, 2010.
Interviews will be conducted by local oral historians in partnership with high school students as part of BHS’s Exhibition Laboratory Program. Interviews will be scheduled for March 23 and March 25 and will take 30 minutes.
To nominate yourself or someone you know to be interviewed email or call 718-222-4111 ext. 241 today. Please include your full name, telephone number, email address and a brief description of your connection to Ebbets Field and the Dodgers.
In honor of all the snowpocalypse and snowmageddon talk I’ve been hearing for the past few days, and my really rather lovely snowy walk in to work this morning, I thought I’d post a few pictures of snowy Brooklyn in years past. Enjoy!
Riverdale Avenue in Brownsville, circa 1950. V1991.11.43, by Harry Kalmus, from the Kalmus Photography Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, circa 1955. V1988.37.141, by Mr. Anthony Costanzo, from the Costanzo Navy Yard Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Removing snow on B.R.T. cars, circa 1915. V1974.22.919, by Eugene Armbruster, from the Eugene L. Armbruster Photograph and Scrapbook Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
64th St. near 6th Avenue, Bay Ridge, December 27, 1947. V1973.5.2596, by Joseph Slepian, from the Brooklyn Historical Society Photography Collection.
And a few more from the Great Blizzard of 1888, which brought 40 inches of snow, drifts up to 30-40 feet and winds up to 55 mph to Brooklyn. The storm prevented both street and rail transportation, and left many confined to home for almost a week.
Clearing snow on Flatbush Avenue, March 15, 1888. V1974.7.331 by A.V. Martense, from the Adrian Vanderveer Martense Photography Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Sleigh running between Flatbush and Brooklyn. V1974.40.1.167, from an album of photographs of the Blizzard of 1888 taken by the Brooklyn Academy of Photography, from the Photography Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Lafayette Avenue, near Franklin. V1974.40.1.28, from an album of photographs of the Blizzard of 1888 taken by the Brooklyn Academy of Photography, from the Photography Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Want to see more great images from out photography collections? Check out our online gallery, or visit the library anytime we’re open (Wed-Fri, 1-5PM) to search through our image database of over 30,000 images, no appointment necessary!
The Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral historian Sady Sullivan leads a seminar this spring (March 24 – May 5, 2010) introducing the practice of Oral History as an historical methodology, a unique narrative genre, and a tool in the reconciliation of social injustices.
The course is interdisciplinary, drawing from history, sociology, memoir, and gender studies. We will examine oral history in all its forms — audio, video, print, and exhibition — and in a variety of settings — museums, schools, archives, performance, radio, and online. In particular, we will consider the dynamics of listening to, recognizing, and validating the voices of women, who may not know their stories have an audience.
In addition to learning the theory and background of oral history, students will learn the practical and technical information needed to conduct their own interviews. View syllabus.
Admission is limited to 15 participants. $250 (BHS members $200)
For more information visit BHS Oral History.
In memory of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) and in appreciation of his life’s work, the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation would like to share these excerpts from an interview we conducted with Howard Zinn on December 8, 2008.
Howard Zinn was an historian, activist, playwright, and author of more than twenty books including A People’s History of the United States.
In these (very) roughly edited clips, Howard Zinn talks about growing up in Brooklyn, working as an apprentice shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and his first date with his future wife Roslyn (who had passed away 7 months prior to this interview).
This interview was conducted by Daniella Romano, Director of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive, on December 8, 2008.
More excerpts from this interview will be used in a forthcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92, scheduled to open in fall 2011.
The full interview is available at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive and the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Othmer Library.
Photo of Howard and Roslyn Zinn courtesy of The Boston Globe: boston.com
