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The Museums on the Green will host nine virtual talks in June as part of its ongoing Virtual Museum Series. This month, authors and historians from across the country will be talking about an epic Grand Prix race, New World explorers, female pioneers, slave traders, whaling captains, the country’s first baseball players and America’s elite alpine warriors, the 10th Mountain Division. The museums will also host its first, free Virtual Trivia Night on Thursday, June 3, at 7 PM, and award its 2021 Katharine Lee Bates Historian Award to acclaimed author and historian Nathaniel Philbrook...

Gunn Museum in Washington hosting virtual talk: 'How Baseball Happened' April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 Baseball on the Washington Green in 1869, in one of the first photographs of a baseball game in progress.Gunn Memorial Museum Contributed /Show MoreShow Less 3of5 5of5 WASHINGTON — Thomas W. Gilbert, author of “How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed,” will give a free, illustrated virtual presentation on Monday, April 19, at 6:30 p.m. In this lecture, Gilbert tells the story of where America’s first national sport came from and how it conquer...

The big news yesterday was, “We’re getting a new bus terminal!” The bad news yesterday was, “Why does a new bus terminal cost $10 billion?!” And, “Why does it take 10 years to complete after so many years of prior study?” And, “Why does replacing one bus terminal with another bus terminal require years of environmental studies?” The main news was in the Times, which reported that the Port Authority has settled on a final design for a new bus station to replace one that “has become synonymous with the overburdened, crumbling infrastructure that has made commuting in New Yor...