Secrets of Central Park
2022-12-01 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
The Secrets of Central Park
… A VIRTUAL TOUR WITH LEGEDNARY TOUR GUIDE KEVIN WALSH!

Its over 850 acres discovered and rediscovered every time you walk around it!
Central Park has had 150 years to collect a lot of attractions and features that are, more or less, Forgotten.
It’s vast enough so that quite a bit of it is rarely trodden by the public… which passes some highlights by without giving them a second glance.

Walk with Kevin, Goatham’s Leading Urban Blogger, as he Uncovers its Secrets!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: $5.00:
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Visit Kevin’s Legendary Blog “FORGOTTEN NY” !

The Greater Astoria Historical Society Annual Holiday Party!
2022-12-15 07:00 - 21:00
The Modern Art Foundry
… A VIRTUAL TOUR WITH JEFFERY SPRING!

Established in 1932 as the “Artists Foundry”
“We strive to provide sculptors access to skilled craftspersons, tools, machinery, and technology needed to cast sculpture. We work on pieces ranging from two inches to 50 feet, from representational to abstract, for the well known, critically acclaimed artist and the sculptor just enjoying art as an amateur. In most cases it falls some place in between these.” Jeffery Spring
With Special Guest Stars!

Denny “Secret Speakeasy” Daniel ~ Natalia “the Sawlady” Peruz ~ Old St. Nick himself!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: FREE!
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Book Group
2022-12-20 19:00 - 2023-02-22 20:30
Join the Greater Astoria Historical Society’s
BOOK CLUB!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Join us as we explore this topic through our Fall Book Group

DEBBIE VAN CURA, EDUCATION DIRECTOR
GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
There are certain things that happen in life that you cannot control. What do you do about them?
Do you try to change the outcome or are there outside factors that control what you do?
This series of 3 books will explore these issues as the characters explore these same issues for themselves.
BOOK GROUP MEETING DATES AND BOOKS
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Monday, December 20, 2022
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
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ALL MEETINGS START AT 7:00 PM ON ZOOM!
Please email Debbie dvancura@astorialic.org
with the subject “Fall Reading Series.”
MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM NY HUMANITIES!

Secrets of Van Cortlandt and Pelham Bay Parks
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00
The Secrets of Van Cortland & Pelham Bay Parks

Most New Yorkers when asked what the largest park in New York City?
they would likely respond
“Central Park!
There are, however, several parks in NYC much larger.
Both Van Cortlandt Park and Pelham Bay Park,
in the Bronx’s northeast corner, are …
more than double Central Park’s size!
Discover what makes these parks such gems!
Walk with Kevin, Gotham’s Leading Urban Blogger, as he Uncovers its Secrets!

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023 / 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Tickets: $5.00:
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Visit Kevin’s Legendary Blog “FORGOTTEN NY” !

Naming Gotham
2023-02-28 19:00 - 20:30
Naming Gotham

Villians, Rogues, and Heros
Behind New York Place Names
meet the author …
Rebecca Bratspies!
The Van Wyck, the Major Deegan, the Jackie Robinson, the Hutch, the Merritt, FDR Drive, or the Henry Hudson… you might drive them regularly, without really noticing that those road names are, well, names. But, who were these people?
Stories from her new book about the villains, rogues, and heroes that New York’s Places are Named for!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023 / 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Famous People of Queens
2023-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
IMAGES OF AMERICA
FAMOUS PEPLE OF QUEENS
WITH ROB MACKAY

From the IMAGES OF AMERICA Series
ARCADIA PUBLISHING

Famous People of Queens showcases a diverse group of characters and historical eras: actors, athletes, business people, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, singers, war heroes, writers, and famous people who weren’t born in Queens but lived in the borough for a long time.
Author Rob MacKay is a longtime, award-winning community journalist who has worked for the Queens Economic Development Corporation.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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Staten Island 7PM 4/11
2023-04-11 19:00 - 20:30
IMAGES OF AMERICA
STATEN ISLAND PARKS
WITH KEVIN WALSH

CLOVE BROOK
CLOVE LAKES PARK

Many people know very little about Staten Island and even less about its parks.
Travel with Forgotten NY to learn about its secrets!
Blogger and award winning Author Kevin Walsh of the Legendary Blog ‘Forgotten New York’ invites your to a virtual walk him him to examine the Parks and Historic Buildings in New York’s most outer borough …
STATEN ISLAND!
TUESDAY, APRIL 11 2023 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
$5.00
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April is National Poetry Month
2023-04-27 18:30 - 21:00
April is National Poetry Month
Join our annual “April is National Poetry Month” celebration featuring published poets, emerging poets, and an open mic.

Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and—of course—poets, marking poetry’s important place in our lives.
Join Greater Astoria Historical Society for its 7th Annual “April is National Poetry Month” event, hosted by Board Member and poet, DeeAnne Gorman. Joining us again will be Queens Poet Laureate, Maria Lisella, and we will feature the students of the Academy for Careers in TV and Film in Long Island City, with their teacher, poet Jared Beloff. Maria Lisella, Queens born and bred, is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate and its first Italian American. She authored the collection, Thieves in the Family (NYQ Books) and two chapbooks, Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). She is Poetry Editor for VIA: Voices in Italian Americana (Bordighera Press), co-curates the Italian American Writers Association reading series (now in its 31st year), and is a charter member of the online poetry circle, brevitas.
Cited for Honorable Mention for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award several times, Maria has led writing workshops for the Queens Public Library, SAGE with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Heights & Hills Brooklyn Older Adults Program, The Noguchi Museum, Greater Astoria Historical Society, and the Writers Guild Initiative with the Body Politic. She is also an award-winning travel and culture writer whose work appears in “Never Stop Traveling”, the bilingual “La Voce di New York”, USA Today and The Jerusalem Post.
https://marialisella.contently.com. | https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/maria_lisella | Twitter: @MariaLisella
Jared Beloff is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023), editor of the Marvel inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer-reviewer for Whale Road Review since 2021. His work can be found at Night Heron Barks, Barren Magazine, River Mouth Review, The Shore, Contrary and elsewhere. He is an English teacher at Academy for Careers in TV and Film in Long Island City, Queens, and lives in Forest Hills with his wife and two daughters.
www.jaredbeloff.com | https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jared_beloff | Twitter: @Read_Instead
Join us on Thursday, April 27th 6:30pm – 9PM
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
