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Blast From the Past: Dogs for Defense
By Liz Stern During World War II, people all over the country participated in some sort of war effort. If they weren’t actually overseas fighting for our country, they may have been working in factories producing ships, growing vegetables to feed people, or collecting scrap metal. But did you know that dogs volunteered too? After [...]
Blast From the Past: Ten-Foot Cops
Blast From the Past: Ten-Foot Cops By Stacey Martin Have you ever seen a “ten-foot tall cop?” You have if you’ve ever seen a mounted police officer! There are plenty of them patrolling the busy streets of New York City. As of 2011, the New York City Police Department’s mounted unit has 79 police officers [...]
Special Event: Writing About “The Big Apple”
By Liz Stern When creative people get together, great things happen. Four creative kids can tell you that first-hand. They met with songwriter and musician David Grover to create an original song. They brainstormed and collaborated to write a song about…what else? NEW YORK! Catherine McCarthy, Jack Freiser, William Freedman and Lucy Kleinschmidt – all [...]
Author Event: Katie Yamasaki Reads Fish For Jimmy at DCHM
By Rachel Walman Until May 27th, visitors to the New-York Historical Society can experience the WWII & NYC exhibition that has taken over most of the Museum’s main floor. The exhibition explores the experiences of New Yorkers of all different backgrounds during the war. In honor of this exhibition, Katie Yamasaki will read from her beautifully written and [...]
Baby Pigeons Visited DCHM, Had a Blast!
By Rachel Walman The May 4th Meet the Fledglings program was a huge success thanks to the Wild Bird Fund and the 70+ visitors who came out to meet some of NYC’s most notorious residents- baby pigeons! The event began with a fascinating presentation by Rita McMahon of the Wild Bird Fund. First, she spoke about the [...]
Reading into History’s May Book: Around the World by Matt Phelan
by Rachel Walman May is here and it’s time for a new book club read! Reading into History is now reading our first graphic novel, Around the World, by Matt Phelan. Phelan is a Scott O’Dell Award winning author and illustrator. Around the World tells the stories of three nineteenth-century world explorers. First, there was [...]
Special Event: David Grover Shares His Songwriting Process
By Liz Stern We live in a musical city. There are orchestras playing in halls, bands playing in the park and musicians trying out their craft in the subway. Sometimes I think even the honking, the whistles and the crowds sound like music! A very special musician is coming to play in the auditorium here [...]
Step by Step: The Curious Garden (The High Line)
By Stacey Martin We are celebrating nature in unexpected places this week at Little New-Yorkers in honor of Earth Day on April 22. Many people assume that urban areas like New York City aren’t places to find nature, other than in large parks like Central Park. Cities are places typically thought to suppress the natural [...]
Special Event: April is National Poetry Month!
By Liz Stern Happy National Poetry Month! Have you ever written a poem? I write poems all the time. Every Monday I write a haiku (#haikumonday) and I love to write limericks. In February I wrote a sonnet for someone’s birthday. That’s a really long poem that is often written to celebrate somebody you love. [...]
Special Event: Review of A Journey With Purpose
By Liz Stern Last weekend the New-York Historical Society was proud to co-host with Facing History and Ourselves the New York premiere screening of A Journey With Purpose. This short film documents the journey Gail Becker, her son Joshua Miller and her father Martin Becker took to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. At the time of the [...]
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