The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual House Tour (the photo was taken in one of the houses on this year’s tour) is coming soon, on Saturday, May 12. You can find more information, and buy tickets, here. The BHA needs “house volunteers” who “are asked to take a shift, watching rooms to be sure there is […]
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Wesley McNair, Maine’s Poet Laureate, Reads at Plymouth Church
Yesterday evening the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn held its annual poetry event at Plymouth Church. This year’s featured poet was Wesley McNair, professor emeritus and poet in residence at the University of Maine, Farmington, and Poet Laureate of Maine. He began by expressing his delight at being, for the first time, […]
Plymouth Church Underground Thrift Extends “Stuff-A-Sack” Clearance
Thanks to the success of its “$25 Stuff-A-Sack” event last weekend, the Underground Thrift Store at Plymouth Church has extended its Winter Clearance Sale on Sunday, March 4. Hours are 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Location: 65 Hicks Street, between Orange and Cranberry. Shoppers can purchase as many $25 Underground Thrift Store Totes (a $5 value) […]
Danish Christmas Fair This Weekend
The Danish Seamen’s Church will hold its annual Christmas Fair this Saturday, November 19, from 11a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Church, 102 Willow Street (just south of Clark Street) and at Plymouth Church, Orange Street between Henry and Hicks, and on Sunday, November 20 from 11:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. at the Danish Seamen’s […]
Red-Legged Devils at Plymouth Church Saturday
This Saturday, October 29, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., if you go to the courtyard of Plymouth Church, on Orange Street between Henry and Hicks, you will be transported back to the era of the Civil War, which Plymouth’s fiery abolitionist preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, may have helped to bring about, and where Abraham […]
Plymouth Church’s Underground Thrift Store Now Open
Plymouth Church is now hosting the Underground Thrift Store Sundays from noon – 4pm. The market features designer clothes for men and women as well as everyone’s favorite “bric-a-brac”. A quarter of the store’s net proceeds will go to the “fight against human trafficking and modern day slavery.” More info on Facebook. Photo courtesy of […]
Interfaith Gathering on Brooklyn Heights Promenade Marks Tenth Anniversary of September 11 Attacks
At 12:30 yesterday afternoon there was a gathering on the Promenade to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Cnter, the Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Above, The Rev. Al Bunis, of Plymouth Church, reads a portion of the Beatitudes, from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 5, verses […]
Brooklyn Heights History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Henry Ward Beecher and the Tilton Trial
Perhaps not surprisingly, Henry Ward Beecher and his associate Theodore Tilton were early and prominent feminists. Their principal goal after the Civil War was obtaining the vote for women, but some also advocated full legal equality and what would become the feminist agenda of the 1970s. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the […]
Mark Your Calendars: Yankee Fair November 6th
I’m a Mets fan, but this is one Yankee event even I will go to. Mostly because it’s not about the New York baseball Yankees but about bouncy inflatables and baked goods. It’s the Plymouth Church Yankee Fair, Saturday November 6th from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. More information after the jump.
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