And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
Historical society. He is an architectural historian who specializes in European Architecture of the 18th and 20th centuries. He is best known throughout new videohrough a series of walking tour is presented by channel 13 including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He has lectured at numerous venues, including columbia university, the Smithsonian Institute and the harvard graduate before we begin we would like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones, electronic beepers, lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. [applause] barry i dont need that. Me, i am all over the stage. It is interesting, i had some people talking to me about this lecture. I am not talking about the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. Why brooklyn needed the bridge and more so than that, new york. New york would never ever admit that they needed brooklyn but they needed it. Just in case people were not here, it was a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. In rec
He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and
In the past these0, usually we vacate rooms and do something else. We are going to give you a little bit of a land map. I think it is appropriate. Our speaker, our extra speaker this afternoon, is somebody who i have had some correspondence with. We both share an interest in petersburg, virginia. There was a fellow out from theigan who was challenging conventional wisdom of the events around the serious wounding of Joshua Chamberlain. The department of his story resources had identified the location where he was allegedly andded, a marker was put up it has been conventional wisdom that they have relayed the offense. Aware that someone was challenging that. The department of Historic Services was looking into moving the historic marker. They were asking us to look at and comment on this. The department and i have to tell you after reading dennis thesis and i would have to agree with it. I asked him if he would like to come down, as kind of an extra talk in our symposium. Our grouplike t