Listen to the Ex Lab student curators of Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Dankaerts on WNYC:
And here they are giving a virtual tour of the exhibit which is on view now:
AND the students have a blog where they wrote about foot-long oysters and much more…
Nelson George and Rosie Perez were on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC last week talking about Change in Brooklyn neighborhoods – it’s a great segment, good callers, and it’s not just about gentrification, have a listen:
AND THEN join us TONIGHT at BHS @ 6:30 – 9:00 pm when Nelson George, esteemed cultural critic, author of Hip Hop America, screenwriter and lifelong Brooklyn resident will launch his memoir City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success.Nelson George will read from his memoir and discuss growing up in Brownsville and living in Fort Greene. He’ll be joined by his sister Andrea Williams, BET’s Samson Styles, and Mike Thompson of Brooklyn Moon Cafe.
Nelson George: City Kid from Nelson George on Vimeo.
If you missed the Forever Blue event at BHS on March 21st, you can listen to it here on WNYC:
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio with Peter O’Malley, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers 1970 – 1998, and Richard Sandomir, Sports Broadcasting Reporter for the New York Times, as they discuss the true story of Walter O’Malley and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles on the occasion of the launch of Mr. D’Antonio’s new book Forever Blue.
Thank goodness for well-preserved audio archives!
On the occasion of Lincoln’s 200th birthday, WNYC is sharing a clip from their audio archives recorded in 1938:
This is William R. Rathvon, the only known eyewitness of both Lincoln’s arrival at Gettysburg and the address itself to have left an audio recording of his recollections.
Click here to listen.
