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Walden Pond to Wallabout Bay: Thoreau in Brooklyn

By on May 30, 2009 10:33 pm in Arts and Entertainment, DUMBO, History

The New England Society in the City of Brooklyn (disclosure: your correspondent is Secretary of the Society) held its annual meeting and spring dinner last Thursday at Pete’s Downtown Restaurant, at the foot of Old Fulton Street in DUMBO. In keeping with tradition, the entertainment of the evening was a talk about a prominent New […]

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