Two fundraisers for History!
MEALS AND SPIELS: AN EVENING OF DINNER & LECTURES ABOUT NYC’S FOOD
A Fundraiser in Support of the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization
Tuesday, April 27
From 7:00p to 10:00p
The Brooklyn Kitchen
100 Frost St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The City Reliquary Museum, one of Gotham’s quirkiest and spunkiest homegrown museums, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, needs to raise funds to stay afloat. They will be partnering with a host of fine food purveyors and history lecturers to present “Meals and Spiels: An Evening of Dinner & Lectures About NYC’s Food.” Diners will be served fare from North Brooklyn kitchens, bakeries and breweries. Each course will feature a talk about the menu item being served. Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione will do a presentation about NYC tap water, with an emphasis on the now-defunct Brooklyn water supply. All proceeds will go towards the City Reliquary’s operational funds. Guests will receive a generously stuffed goody bag at the end of the evening. To purchase tickets and see complete details, visit:
LECTURE AND RECEPTION: RELOCATING ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S HOME, THE GRANGE, TO ST. NICHOLAS PARK
Wednesday, May 12
Lecture at 6:00p, Reception at 6:45p
Federal Hall
26 Wall St.
Manhattan
Alexander Hamilton’s onetime home, the Grange, was recently relocated to a new site in St. Nicholas Park, Northern Manhattan, and is now in the final stages of a multi-million dollar restoration by the National Park Service. Stephen Spaulding, Chief of the Architectural Preservation Division of NPS’s Northeast Region, will present an illustrated lecture about the project at Federal Hall, in Downtown Manhattan. Among other things, he will show how the work crew went about jacking the two centuries-old house over 25 feet in the air in order to slide it past an obstruction and onto the street! Proceeds from the evening will help pay for plantings that will be placed near the Grange’s new site. To purchase tickets and see complete details, visit:
http://www.americanscottishfoundation.com/events/hamilton_eblast.htm