Tuesday, April 28, 6pm – Along the Hudson: Walking Manhattan’s Western Waterfront with William Hennessey
Writer William Hennessey will discuss his engaging book, Along the Hudson, which takes readers on eight fascinating walks along Manhattan’s Hudson waterfront, with stops along the way to explore its architecture, infrastructure, and history. Author William Hennessey is an architectural historian and retired museum director. He has authored two previous guidebooks, Walking Broadway: Thirteen Miles of Architecture and History and Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park. He frequently gives walking tours along the Hudson. Presented in Partnership with The New York Landmarks Conservancy.
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Wednesday, June 3, 6pm – Stone, Ancient Practice to Modern Mastery with Richard Rhodes
In this perceptive and illustrative look at the expressive and practical use of stone throughout history, sculptor Richard Rhodes will unlocks the underlying principles of this ancient material—and will explain the closely guarded “Sacred Rules.” The relationship between mankind and stone is elemental and deeply ingrained in us all. Stone, after all, has been the primary building material for more than five thousand years of human history, and it continues to record our triumphs and failures. In this searching history, Rhodes—a sculptor, stonemason, and scholar of stonework—explores how stone is best used today and throughout history. Presented in Partnership with the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture (ICAA).
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Wednesday, June 10th, 6pm – Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age with author James M. Tabor
In this program, based on his book, Lightning Beneath the Sea, author James M. Tabor will tell the thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that changed the world. In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. Mr. Tabor will describe how in 1866, after enduring over a decade of catastrophic failures and staggering losses, Field would finally lay his great cable, ushering in the global information age. Presented in Partnership with The Victorian Society New York.
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