Express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been restoring the structure and the church. We had to build some things here, restore existing buildings, and bring this historic structure a
This structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and
I think it is hard to measure the economic focus of having disneyland coming of age in a parallel track. Disneyland has had a lot of growth in a few years, and that has changed the focus and tourism. I think it is Something Like annually 10 billion generated due to tourism. To all who come to this happy place, disney land is your land. Here we relive fond memories of the past, and it is the challenge and the promise of the future. No, anaheim did not start when disneyland opened. We had a long community, and active, vibrant Community Long before then. Southern california was known as the valencia orange center. Southern california up to about the 1940s, early 1950s was the center of the citrus business nationally. Anaheim supported nine packing houses, such as we have in the background here. These packing houses employed to the community. They facilitated the growth of anaheim, facilitated the growth of the industry. These were well loved, but by the 1950s, most of them had closed down
So thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is marsha eli. Im the Vice President of programs and external affairs here at the Brooklyn Historical society. And on behalf of our president , deborah schwartz, and our board of trustees, some of whom are here, and thank you so all all so much for what you do. I am so pleased to welcome you to the Brooklyn Historical society for this program tonight. I will just say that we are a place of hello yay [ applause ] if you start, thats when they come, right . Were a place of learning. Were a museum and education center. Were a place of exhibitions and Extraordinary Library and collections, a site of wideranging public programs. We really are especially proud to offer programs that tackle issues of social justice, and give voice to history that is all too often unheard. And thats one of the reasons were especially excited and honored to have our guests tonight. Last february, the New York Times sunday magazine featured a cover article by d
Hi. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. New york city subways have tripped us up, and we are waiting for our moderator. But were going to begin, because i know that he is on the way. And were eager to start. So thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is marsha eli. Im the Vice President of programs and external affairs here at the Brooklyn Historical society. And on behalf of our president , deborah schwartz, and our board of trustees, some of whom are here, and thank you so much for what you do, i am so pleased to welcome you to the Brooklyn Historical society for this program tonight. I will just say that we are a place of hello yay [ applause ] if you start, thats when they come, right . Were a place of learning. Were a museum and education center. Were a place of exhibitions and Extraordinary Library and collections, a site of wideranging public programs. We really are especially proud to offer programs that tackle issues of social justice, and give voice