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And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury pri...

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Partly in its genesis, hardly the kind of questions that arose, which for me, gave the book a kind of larger scope than i had originally intended. The quotations in the book, the slogans and catch phrases, up until 1955, were easy for me to remember. Because im a child of the 40s and thats what i learned in school. And thats how we learned history in school. Either the books we took out of the library in fourth and fifth grade or the way history was taught. But when i got to graduate school in t...

Of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out of the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school n the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it int so. O i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients, when th...

Remember because i was a child of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out f tof the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school in the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it aint so. So i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me...

Thank you for your patience. Were delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow is down, but i do want to make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our oldtimers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience, so were delighted be that as well. Those who have never been here before i want to give you a sense ...

I dont want to slow us down, but i do want make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our full timers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience so we are delighted by that as well. For those of you who have never been here before, i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for very long tim...

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Series. So id like to thank quay and devon who currently run the program here and remind you there are several more coming up in july and august. The next is powerhouse arena with sarah girard and hannah tente speaking. A little bit about this book and about erica wagner. As you can tell from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. You know, not most great monuments dont have, dont inspire great writing, but i would say the Brooklyn Bridge is an excepti...

When i want to give up, he helps me go on. I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial, he once wrote. I also know each day brings its middle quota of experiences, which, with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while. So thats just a little bit about how this remarkable structure came to be built all those years ago. A structure that has endured with some but notmuch alteration from that day to this. I thought id read you also a little bit from the book. As i men...