Love in the Archives | Episode 261

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day as we share some of our favorite love stories from history from the places that we work. We will share long-distance love letters from World War II, milestone weddings in Prospect Park, workplace romances at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and people who found their loves in public markets. We will share artifacts, newspaper clippings, oral histories, and more from various archives, and we invite participants to share their own love stories and family histories in this Zoom meeting.

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Inside Industry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Love Stories and Letterpress, Feb 9

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Typeface collection at Woodside Press at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Get ready for Valentine’s Day on this special Sunday Inside Industry program at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We will first delve into the archives of the Yard to share stores of sailors, seamstresses, shipworkers, and entrepreneurs that have fallen in love at the Yard as we visit some of the most iconic sites of the shipyard. We will then head over to Woodside Press, a traditional letterpress printing studio, where participants will get a tour of their equipment and process, and then get to use these methods to print their very own valentine to take home.

Inside Industry: Love Stories and Letterpress at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

icon-calendar  SUN, Feb 9, 2020
icon-clock-o 2 hours
icon-ticket $35 per person
icon-male Walking tour
  BLDG 92, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

CBS New York: Why Prospect Park Is The Perfect Place For A Love Story

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CBS New York, February 14, 2019

by John Dias

Some even pop the question in the park. So it doesn’t come as a shock that weddings are popular there, too, and have been since the 1920s. “The first official wedding took place in Prospect Park on June 7, 1923, and that was between Elizabeth Hoyt Senarens and Owen Morton Gunderson,” Turnstile Tours Vice President Andrew Gustafson told Dias.

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