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Centenarian Faity Tuttle!

Written by Sady on October 20th, 2010
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Alex di Suvero for The New York Times

BHS is happy to see Brooklynite Esther Leeming “Faity” Tuttle celebrated in The New York Times among fellow centenarians!

Hear Faity talk about John’s Group, a playgroup for children in Prospect Park, Brooklyn accents, and how John narrowly avoided being struck by the 1960 plane crash in Park Slope:

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Faity was born in 1911 and she grew up in Brooklyn Heights, on Henry Street.  She became a professional actress, appearing on Broadway with Humphrey Bogart, among others.  In 1944, she moved to Park Slope with her husband, Ben, and their three children.  She’s a longtime supporter of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and in 1988, she was awarded the BBG’s Forsythia Award for outstanding service.  Her autobiography No Rocking Chair For Me was published in 2003 and  BHS interviewed Faity for the Oral History Collection in 2006 and the full interview is available for listening in the Othmer Library.

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Park Slope Walking Tour

Written by Sady on October 27th, 2009

Park Slope, Brooklyn photo by wallyg on Flickr

photo courtesy wallyg on Flickr

In 2008, BHS published the Park Slope Neighborhood & Architectural History Guide, written by Francis Morrone.  We are currently working on a neighborhood guide about Fort Greene / Clinton Hill, so, stay tuned and please be in touch if there’s something BHS needs to know, someone BHS needs to interview, or you have other ideas for this forthcoming guide.

You can download a Walking Tour of Park Slope here.

And you can listen to voices from Park Slope to accompany the tour:

LIFE OF A BLOCK
 Produced by independent radio producer, Laura Starecheski

The Rubin Family: 3 Generations in Park Slope

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The Rubin Family: Fire on Carroll Street

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TALE OF TWO LIQUOR STORES
Interviews by Corie Trancho-Robie, Columbia Oral History Research Office

Red, White, and Bubbly: Darrin Siegfried

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DeSilva South Brooklyn Liquors: Floyd DeSilva

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Interviews by Sady Sullivan, Brooklyn Historical Society

Park Slope Food Co-Op: Joseph Holtz

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Lesbian Herstory Archives: Maxine Wolfe

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PARK SLOPE 2.O: THE BLOGGERS

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Louise Crawford

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The Declaration of Co-Dependence: The Blog That Must Not Be Named

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Narrated by Francis Morrone.
Recorded by Laura Starecheski, Sady Sullivan, and Corie Trancho-Robie.
Produced by Laura Starecheski for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Thank you to everyone who was interviewed, and to the Borough of Manhattan Community College.


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Keepin’ It Brooklyn

Written by Sady on January 23rd, 2009

Students at the Secondary School for Research in Park Slope working with Urban Memory Project, Park Slope Civic Council, and BHS on a wonderful oral history project.

Check out their blog Keepin It Brooklyn!

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Student Exhibit in Park Slope

Written by Sady on January 13th, 2009

We worked with these students on the oral history elements of their project (stay tuned to hear some of their interviews on our website).  They’re a great group and I can’t wait to see their exhibit!

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Pete Hamill’s Brooklyn Revisited

Written by Sady on October 1st, 2008

New York magazine’s 40th Anniversary issue has an article by Pete Hamill, who grew up in Park Slope.

And here’s an article he wrote about Brooklyn for the same magazine in 1969.

Coincidently, our Park Slope Neighborhood and Architectural History Guide launches this Thursday.

The guide includes two Walking Tours of Park Slope and accompanying audio tracks which can be downloaded from our website or through the Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast on iTunes.

Here’s one track from the audio tour where Pete Hamill’s brothers John and Denis Hamill talk about the street gangs in Park Slope in the 1950s and 60s:

John and Denis Hamill on Park Slope

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