Summer Events

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Sunday, July 9, 2 pm
Walking Tour
Walt Whitman's Brooklyn
The literary scholar Harold Bloom said that Whitman was the only American writer who could be put in the same class as Shakespeare. Whitman's was an art that tried to encompass all the world around him, the high, the low, and everything in between. And it was Brooklyn , he said, that nurtured his spirit. America's Bard is forever associated with the city in which he lived and wrote for so many years. On our walk we will take in sites associated with Whitman's life and writings, architectural reminders of his Brooklyn era, and examples of his influence.
Guide: Author, teacher, and historian, Francis Morrone.
Meet at the northwest corner of Court and Montague Streets. $10 for members, $15 for non-members. No reservation required.


Sunday, July 16, 2 pm
Willamsburg Walking Tour Series (3 of 3)
Artistic Williamsburg
In recent years Williamsburg has become New York's leading residence of artists of all kinds, as well as one of the best places to experience cutting-edge art in galleries, studios, and performance spaces. This walk highlights the latest and greatest of Williamsburg's artistic offerings, including some famous venues, and some obscure.
Guide: Author, teacher, and historian, Francis Morrone.
Meet at the City Reliquary Museum , located at 370 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer Street . $10 for members, $15 for non-members. No reservation required.

Sunday, July 30, 2 pm
Library Lecture Series
Appraisal 101
In conjunction with the American Society of Appraisers' annual meeting in Brooklyn , personal property appraisers will shed some light on the appraisal process and explain why, despite what it may look like on television, you can't appraise something on the spot. Learn how you can discover more about items of interest that you own and hear tips on how to preserve and protect your antiques and collectables.
The American Society of Appraisers, founded in 1936, is the oldest and one of the most well respected appraisal designations in the world, representing more that 6,000 appraisers worldwide, who work in all disciplines: personal property, gems and jewelry, business valuation, real property, and machinery and technical specialties.
Free with admission. Brooklyn Historical Society, 718.222.4111

Saturday, August 19, 2 pm
Walking Tour
Prospect Park and the Gold Coast
From Grand Army Plaza, we will enter into the great mouth of Olmsted & Vaux's masterpiece, Prospect Park, to emerge onto what once was known as Brooklyn's "Gold Coast", Prospect Park West and some of its park blocks that define an era of immense suburban prosperity—and architectural grandeur—in the late 19th century. The park, built at what was then the city of Brooklyn's far border with the town of Flatbush , called into being its surrounding neighborhoods as the bastions of Brooklyn's elites. We will examine how park and neighborhood functioned together to create an environment of irresistible urbanity—an environment, incidentally, no less that way now than then.
Guide: Author, teacher, and historian, Francis Morrone.
Meet in front of the Montauk Club on Eighth Avenue at Lincoln Place . $10 for members, $15 for non-members. No reservation required.


Brooklyn Historical Society, 718.222.4111