2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Saturday, November 07, 2026 Join Flatbush Library and Prospect Park Alliance for a free tour of the park to learn about the Battle of Brooklyn, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. Please note this tour…
This is the story of the party that changed the city’s society forever. The party in question was the Vanderbilt Costume Ball, which took place on March 26, 1883, and cost around $250,000, the equivalent of about $7.3 million today. It took place at…
Walk down First Street on a hot Kingston afternoon and the place still hums: a speaker box testing somewhere, a vendor calling out, Bob Marley’s face painted across a wall. Trench Town history is the story of how a patch…
William C. Whitney had met Oliver Payne at Yale. Also an agreeable man, Payne was two years ahead of Whitney. He was the son of a rich Cleveland businessman. Payne left Yale to join the Union Army in the Civil War,…
Women's Rights National Historical Park will host free programs in Seneca Falls this month celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton's birthday and exploring Amelia Bloomer's work in New York and Iowa. The park's November events include “Spotlighting Stanton” from Nov. 12-14 and an…
The West Barn of the Historic Eidem Farm, pictured during a holiday event in 2024, located at 4345 101st Ave. N. in Brooklyn Park. 50 years ago, the newspaper now known as the Sun Post reported the city of Brooklyn Park purchased an “old homestead…
Season 4 of "The Gilded Age" - which premieres Nov. 1 on HBO and HBO Max - will once again depict the mammoth economic and social transformation of late 19th-century New York City. While the acclaimed series mostly unfolds on Manhattan's Upper East Side,…
The trajectory of the Vanderbilt family fortune embodies a drastic journey of wealth accumulation and subsequent dilution, one of the most dramatic rises and falls in American history. At its peak, the family was wealthier than the United States Treasury,…
Discover the story of an extraordinary archaeological find with Dr. Michael Lucas, Curator of Historical Archaeology, in this gallery talk in Revolutionary New York. Buried beneath Manhattan’s historic landfill for more than 200 years, the remains of an 18th-century wooden gunboat…
All views and claims made in this belong solely to the author. The boy from Pottersville, where the sea, music and community became one Imagine a young boy growing up along the sunlit shores of Pottersville, Dominica, in the 1960s. The…
The town's story and the places that keep it.