Tomorrow, November 11th, BHS will offer Free Admission to all Veterans and their Families in honor of Veteran’s Day.
Vietnam Veteran Anthony Wallace at the Brooklyn Historical Society; Image courtesy of nytimes.com
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Bountiful Borough
A few weeks ago I went to Frankie’s Spuntino on Court St. in Carroll Gardens for the first time. My entire experience at Frankie’s was amazing from the warm service staff to the delicious Soppressata, which even broke the will of my mostly vegetarian boyfriend.
grapes by mlykb9
I was thrilled to learn a week later that Frankie’s is one of the local businesses taking part in BHS’ Brooklyn Bounty event on October 29. Brooklyn Bounty is BHS’ fall fundraising party and this year Brooklyn Bounty is proud to feature local purveyors of some of the most delectable food and drink in the borough. We’ll be serving ice cream from Blue Marble, pickled goodies from McClure’s, a variety of seasonally inspired dishes from Naturally Delicious, beer from (where else!) Brooklyn Brewery and wine from Red Hook Wineries. The Brooklyn Kitchen will also bring goodies from their Williamsburg store and if that weren’t enough we’ll also hear an amazing performance by Piñataland and their “grand Americana orchestra”. I hear they are even drafting a tune about our dear old Jasper Danckaerts!
I’m getting hungry just writing about this shindig. If you’re interested in coming to the party to try the food or hear the music you’ll be happy to hear that while you’re sipping Chardonnay or indulging in a some mocha chip you’ll also be supporting BHS’ education programs. Not bad for a night out.
Park Lit TONIGHT Coney Island ALWAYS
Two of BHS’s Interpreting Brooklyn artists, novelist Elizabeth Gaffney and Coney Island playwright Michael Schwartz, will be reading tonight in Fort Greene Park with L.J. Davis, a fellow contributor to the magazine A Public Space.
Another friend of BHS and Coney Island, Charles Denson, founder of the Coney Island History Project, is hosting an online conversation at The New York Times City Room Blog this week.
If you haven’t been following the debates about revitalizing Coney Island, the City Council is about to vote on a rezoning plan and the Municipal Art Society has suggested improvements to the proposed plan. The New York Times and local community organizations have endorsed MAS’s improved plan which doubles the size of the amusement area and removes hotels from the south side of Surf Avenue which would block the view of the ocean.
“Coney Island is a great business school… you have to be very dumb not to learn how to sell. And I wasn’t!”
That’s a quote from an interview with Lillian Santangello, founder of the World of Wax Musee, Coney Island’s first and only wax museum conducted by BHS in 1987. Check out BHS’s podcast to hear more from this interview.
Ms. Santangello was almost 80 years old at the time of the interview and she has wonderful things to say about her wax figures and the visitors to her museum on the corner of Stillwell and Surf Avenue – both the celebrities like Charlie Chaplin and the “riff raff”. Ms. Santangello grew up in Coney Island and started working at at early age helping her adopted father at his fruit and peanut stand. The wax figures in her museum included Nat King Cole, Roberto Clemente, and a figure in an electric chair which now haunts BHS’s warehouse…
MMNY at BHS
Photos from the Make Music New Y0rk show at BHS yesterday
And a review of the show in Girls Rock & Girls Rule!
Make Music at BHS
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
CELEBRATE Make Music New York, a unique festival of free concerts in public spaces throughout New York City, this Sunday, June 21st at the Brooklyn Historical Society with the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, a Brooklyn-based a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women through music education and activities that foster self-respect, leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Infectious pop spiked with equal parts blissful soul and dissonant, acerbic noise-rock tomfoolery.
– The Village Voice
Saffire
Saffire!
Two sets of sisters, ages 11 and 14,
playing original indie-rock!
Pollen
Thrash diva Honeychild (Pollen) brings to mind Miriam Makeba meeting Bjork in the Sex Pistols’s basement.
– VIBE Magazine
The Crinolines
The Crinolines are alumni of
Willie Mae Ladies Rock Camp Weekend 2008!
Twilight of the Idle
Twilight of the Idle is an innovative blend of piano-artistry, spoken word and vocals coupled with lyrics about love, queerness, gender, and politics.
We had a great time last year – hope to see you!
Honeychild performing at BHS Make Music New York 2008