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More than 2,800 Brooklynites were killed in World War I, and Prospect Park quickly became one of the borough’s key points of remembrance and commemoration. On this virtual walking tour for Veterans Day, we will explore some of the memorial sites in the park and they people they memorialize, including the memorial trees along Prospect Park West, Bartel-Pritchard Square, and the striking 1921 memorial by Henry Augustus Lukeman. We will also discuss the ways in which the park was mobilized and transformed as a result of the war.
- Veterans Day Tour Google Map
- The Great War and NYC: Prospect Park
- World War I Memorial Trees
- Mary McDowell Friends School
- The “Living Photographs” of Mole and Thomas
Virtual Programs
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Black Sailors and Shipworkers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1866–1966 | Virtual Program | Saturday, February 27
The Other Dutch in Our Region | Virtual Program | Tuesday, March 2
Chocolate History of Brooklyn | Virtual Program | Thursday, March 4
Delaware & Raritan Canal / Camden & Amboy RR with the Canal Society of New Jersey | Free Virtual Program | Wednesday, March 10
Ships, Shanties, and the Shamrock: Brooklyn's 19th Century Irish Waterfront | Virtual Program | Wednesday, March 17
Celebrating One Year, 200 Episodes of Virtual Programs | Virtual Happy Hour | Friday, March 19
Around the World in One Kitchen with Brian Hoffman | Virtual Program | Saturday, March 20
Where is Pete Panto? Corruption and Crusaders on NYC's Waterfront | Virtual Program | Monday, March 22
