APRIL  17TH  2013
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   BRONX ARTIST 
         Feb 20th  - MAY 11th 2013                    
    William P. Folchi
   1922-1992





March 20th 2013
Woman in Bronx History







Thursday January 17th 2013
Jonathan Kuhn, NYC Dept. of Parks
Greener Pastures: A Brief History of
Bronx Parks

         
"BRONX" by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE 1795-1820
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NOVEMBER 2012






OCTOBER 27th 2012


OCTOBER 17th 2012
Mike Cronin
NYPD

      



SEPT 19th 2012
"HISTORY OF THE BRONX LATINO"
ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Eduction Director for The Bronx County Historical Society





    June 20th 2012

   3rd Annual Bronx Antique Road Show

The following members participated in the Show and had one or two items from their Bronx collections available for exhibit.  The members told stories about how they acquired the item, its age and its Bronx connection to history.  Members provided documents, newspaper articles and photographs detailing their item. 

May 16th 2012
 
Ellen Levitt
      "The Lost Synagogues of The Bronx"


  April 18th 2012
  JoeTassiello: Wakefield Yard Superintendent


 is your guide for a behind-the-scenes look at the  New York City Transit System

March 21st 2012
Wednesday 7:30pm

"Anne Hutchinson &Women in Bronx History"
Members that presented their reports:
Bronx Woman In History
Tom Vasti            Settler, Anne Marbury Hutchinson
Bill Twomey        Swimmers:  Jane Hill, & Gertrude Ederle
Eleanor Koffler    Sculptors: Vivian Lush Piccirilli &  Mary Lawrence Tonetti
Jerry Koffler        Educators: Dr. Mary B. Gillis &  Wilma McClung
Alison Wise         Poet, Marilyn Hacker
Mike Gupta          Jurist,  Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor
Sharon Casey       Author, Mary Higgins Clark
Thomas Casey      Sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington 
                              Botanist,  Elizabeth Gertrude Britton  
                              Journalist, Elizabeth Jane Cochran  aka Nellie Bly
Toby Liederman    Settler, Maria Van Eyck Bronck
                               Scientist, Dr. Susan Band Horwitz
Stephen Devillo     Environmentalist Ruth Anderberg
Deborah Wye        Author, Constance Rosenblum “Boulevard of Dreams”
                              Author, Evelyn Gonzalez “The Bronx “
Richard Vitacco    Actress, Anne Bancroft
                              Musician, Joanie Madden 

 THE EAST BRONX HISTORY FORUM
PRESENTS: 
  Morgan Powell
The Bronx River's Afro-American
Heritage in 50 Golden Moments "


Hunt's Point - Slave Burial Ground 1905

January 18th 2012 
DEBORAH WYE

"The 75th Anniversary of Orchard
Beach & the Art Deco Pavilion"

 DECEMBER 21st 2011
Wednesday 7:30pm

THE EAST BRONX HISTORY FORUM PRESENTS Norman J. Brouwer
Noted maritime historian

"They're coming to America by ship
1620 to 1960 "

 NOVEMBER 16th 2011
Wednesday 7:30pm

THE EAST BRONX HISTORY FORUM
PRESENTS:
Barbara Dolensek
Vice President, City Island Historical Society
&
Nautical Museum

    "CITY ISLAND HISTORY,
    LEGENDS & FOLKLORE"

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OCTOBER 19th 2011
Wednesday 7:30pm
Wayne Cahilly
Manager of the Lionel Goldfrank III, Institutional Mapping Department” at NYBG

"The Lorillards & the
Bronx Botanical Gardens"




SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
"HIGHBRIDGE IRISH"
Kate Feighery

Highbridge, the neighborhood in the southwestern section of the Bronx, took its name from the massive stone bridge (spanning the Harlem River) constructed there in the 1840s to carry water to the island of Manhattan. The history of the Irish in Highbridge can be traced from the mid-nineteenth century, when homes of Irish immigrant workers building the Croton Reservoir first began to replace earlier farmlands and sprawling estates.

Kate Feighery holds a Master’s Degree in Irish and Irish American Studies from Glucksman Ireland House, New York University.
She currently works as a Project Editor in the College Department at W. W. Norton & Company, while continuing to pursue her interest in the history of the Irish in New York.

SUMMER WALKING TOURS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 2011

The East Bronx History Forum & The Women’s Herstory Association To celebrate “The Anne Hutchinson Year”Saturday June 25^th 10:00 a.m. to Noon Thomas X. Casey and Toby Z. Liederman will lead“A Walking Tour of the Anne Hutchinson Homestead:

Where Do YOU Think She Lived?”

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 JUNE 15, 2011 Wednesday 7:30pm THE EAST BRONX HISTORY FORUM THE HUNTNGTON FREE LIBRARYPRESENTS:BILL TWOMEY & THOMAS X. CASEYAuthor of South Bronx Author of Bronx Views
          “NORTHWEST BRONX”
 A PRESENTATION OF IMAGES FROM THEIR NEW BRONX BOOK

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Bronx Antique Road Show
May 18th 2011   

                    Participants & Exhibitors  

  Hank Stroobants  1940  buzzer with neighbors names from 715 E. 233^rd St Robert Apuzzo            1935  Ebling’s Beer Tray Richard Vitacco    1930 photo postcard of  PS 34 Van Nest parade Mike Gupta            1911 Bartow Station archaeological findStephen DeVillo           1880  Bronx River Bottle find.Sharon Casey         1863  Portable stove by Thomas W. Houchin , Bronx  NYLinda Sacewicz       1950 Fordham Hospital nurse cape & capToby Liederman           1970 Pete Seeger signed letterTom & Maria Vasti     1910 Bronx Zoo  postcardsThomas X. Casey        1890  Henry Bamman bottle, Morris Heights Anthony Pisciotta        1923  F.A.D.A. radio by Frank Angelo D'Andrea, born 1888 BX

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APRIL 20, 2011  

 NORMAN J. BROUWER
Author of The International Register of Historic sailing Ships  

“STEAMBOAT OF THE EAST RIVER”
   



                             MARCH 16, 2011 
                            MICHAEL SHANLEY

Official NYC Tour Guide and columnist for the City Island Current  

“THE KINGSBRIDGE ARMORY”
 
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February 16,  2011 - ANGEL HERNANDEZ  

 Eductional Director - Bronx County Historical Society
“THE BRONX THEN & NOW”A new book by Kathleen A. McAuley and Gary Hermalyn 

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January 19,  2011 - Wednesday   7:30 pm

DR. PETER DERRICK
Archivist Emeritus Bronx County Historical Society  
&
Author – Tunneling to the FutureThe Story of the Great Subway Expansion that saved New York

“John Mullaly & The New Parks Beyond the Harlem”December 15 2010 - Wednesday   7:30 pm

DANIEL SALKEY
Amateur Paleontologist  
&
Urban Archaeologist
" Excavating in the Bronx" 
Note :  Bill Twomey, Thomas X. Casey and Bob Apuzzo will have their Bronx Books available for purchase\

 NOVEMBER 17TH 2010
RICHARD VITACCO
EBHF Officer, educator
Van Nest Historian

"The Art of Carl Paul Jennewein" 


OCTOBER 20TH
   Wednesday   7:30 pm
   Thomas X. Casey

"Westchester Square Then & Now"

        100 year old images of the " Square "  are viewed along with a current photo at the same locations

                          


                      SEPT 15TH
             Wednesday   7:30 pm
  A Revolution in Public School Design:
The Legacy of Charles B. J. Snyder  
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Professor Jean Arrington

Wednesday June 16th   7:30 pm“Exploring North Brother & Hart Island” Norman J. Brouwer
Author “International Register of Historic Ships


                   Bronx Antique Road Show
                        May 19th 2010 

                              Participants & Exhibitors
 Bill Twomey             Indian Pestle - Morrisania Directory 1871-1872
Ruth Murphy           1915 Newspaper/ shoe lace hook/ mystery item
Eugene Murphy      Early Bible
Mike Gupta               Newall Street / Bronx River
 Jerry Koffler            Dr. Kazimiroff Article, Lorillard Millstone
Eleanor Koffler        Attilio Piccirilli studio & Woodlawn photo
Thomas X. Casey   Van Cortlandt Park Golf Clubs - 1910
James Vogt              Spuyten Duyvil Canal stock certificate
Larry Barazzotto    Bronx Car Show
Richard Vitacco      Morris Park - Van Nest Horse Shoe
Thomas Vasti          Morris Park Race Track land sale
Nicholas DiBrino    Morris Park Race Track sandstone block / Wakefield Jug
Toby Pagano           1939 World Fair - PS 79
Pat Ernest                Red Cross
Bill Timper                Civil War Rifle         
Diane Timper           Freedomland - Family auto business
Robert Apuzzo       Bronx Brewery -  Bronx Beach Photo
Anthony Pisciotta General Slocum disaster - Tug Hewitt

 April 21st  2010
A LECTURE
BY Author: Jessica DuLong   

 Running the engines of retired NYC fireboat John J. Harvey,
Jessica DuLong shares her experiences of learning to navigate
a traditionally male world, masterfully interweaving unforgettable present-day characters with four centuries of Hudson River history.    

         Please visit      http://www.jessicadulong.com/ 
    
March 10th 2010  
The Invisible Irish immigrants, during the 1860’s who lived and worked at the Bartow Pell Mansion”
Lecture by:  Doug Hearle 
Reporter & Docent for the Bartow-Pell Mansion   


February 2010             "Saluting NY Reform School Ships"
                        Thomas C. McCarthy
                             Historian and WebMaster 
                                New York Correction History Society

NYC Public Charities & Correction's school-ship, Mercury,  at Hart Island circa 1869-76  

Janet Butler Munch

Nov  2009 

“The Story of the New York Catholic Protectory”

Eleanor & Jerry
Koffler         Oct  2009 
“Bronx Out Door Art”

    LINDA NELIN SACEWICZ

 Sept 2009

“ THE SWEDE FINNS COME 
TO THE BRONX"



Joe Schiavone

June 2009

“The Old Put…Gone but Not Forgotten”

Tom Vasti
 Doug Hearle
     May 2009
"Robert Moses 
and Orchard    
Beach"

Susan & Art Zuckerman
   April 2009
"Hall of Fame, University Heights, Bronx NY"


 Bill Twomey 
  &
 Tom Casey

   March 2009

    "Bronx
Irish History"




Richard Sloan

Feb 2009

"President Abraham Lincoln's New York Funeral Procession "


Thomas X. Casey

Jan 2009

History of The Huntington
Free
Library 
&
  Frederick Clarke Withers

Norman Brouwer
&
Bob Apuzzo

Dec 2008

Colonial Ships
&
The Lost Hussar  

November 14, 2008 - June 15, 2005

Piccirelli  "Freeing the Angel from the Stone"   Elenor & Jerry Koffler

Woodlawn Cenentary records and Monuments  - Susan Olsen

Geology of the Bronx- Joel Grossman

Bronx History in Art & Paintings - Don Rice

St. Paul Tombstones and history - David Osborne

Bronx River History & Folklore- De Kadt &  DeVillo

 Lenape Indians in the Bronx - Patricia Ernest

Fleetwood, Jerome and Morris Racetracks- Casey & Vasti

William Withers – Band Leader for Lincoln -Richard Sloan

FDNY  " WHEN THE BRONX BURNED " -JOHN J. FINUCANE

 Freedomland Slides & Movie - Tom Casey

 Kingsbridge Inwood  Forts, Indians,  History - Peter Ostrander

 Wakefield Tour - Hank Stroobants

 Pelham Bay Monorail - Tom Casey

Director of St. Paul’s National Historic Site - David Osborne

Van Nest History and Tour - Rich Vitacco

 Bronx Trolley & Transportation - Bill Armstrong

City Island Historical Society -  Tom NYE

 “Hart Island “   &   Dept of Corrections-T homas McCarthy

 A Tribute to John McNamara- Twomey 

 A Tour of Pelham Bay Park & Bartow Pell -Vasri & Casey

“Crime of the Century”,  the Lindberg kidnapping -Richard Sloan

History of Stratton Park and John Stratton O'Leary- Mike Cronin

Field Trip – Hunter Island, Pelham Bay Park - Tom casey

 Loreto Park - Tom vasti

Director of St. Paul’s National Historic Site - David Osborne

Bronx Irish musicians and music -Jack McCarrick

Bronx &  Irish Civil War Veterans - Tom Casey

Bronx Transportation Slides -Bill Armstrong

 Part II – New York Police Dept -Mike Bosak & Mike Cronin

No Meeting 

Part I – New York Police Dept - Mike Bosak

Big Tim Sullivan at Eastchester Road -Tom Casey

 The Vincent/Halsey House – Provost Avenue  - Tom Casey

  Arnow Mansion- Twomey/Vasti/Anderson

 Arnow Mansion - Twomey/Vasti/Anderson

Tom Casey – Bronx Postcard Images