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Now I Could Sell Anyone The Brooklyn Bridge
I learned so much about the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday that I could probably hock it at the corner market for a pretty penny. From Robert Zagaroli, Richard Haw, the Rudolph Burckhardt film Under The Bridge, and Ken Burns’s documentary … Continue reading
Ice Cream Is Good
After a longish tour of Newtown Creek on a NYC Water Taxi, under the Brooklyn Bridge, under the Manhattan Bridge, under several other bridges, past refineries, oil, sugar, workers in hard hats, manufacturing plants, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and some … Continue reading
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Tagged Along The Shore, sewage
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Personal Life Is Life: Hershon’s “Bridges”
Misremembering and morphed oral histories create fantastic tales that hold great importance to families. In those families, new generations learn, relearn, and retell these histories so that they become tales of what could have been even if they weren’t. Such … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridges, Brooklyn Memories, Joanna Hershon, Landmarks, Love, Memory, Truth
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Yawping About Everything But: Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
Walt Whitman is an American icon who loved the places he lived. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” shows his admiration for one of those places, Brooklyn. It also reveals his ideas on the nature of humans living in cities and individuals among … Continue reading
The Span: Haw’s The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History
The media of 1883 is not much different from the media of today. The difference is the internet and rampant tabloids. The similarity is the ability to inflate and skew public perception, and to create a brighter picture of any … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Landmarks, Memory, Past, Reality, Richard Haw, Seven Lamps Of Architecture, view, Whitman
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Rediscovering Brooklyn: A Local Tour De Force 