Closing Bell: Delve Into Dutch Colonial Brooklyn

On Wednesday night a talk at the Brooklyn Historical Society will “explore the lives of Brooklyn’s founding families.” Kevin Stayton, the Chief Curator of the Brooklyn Museum, will discuss several items from the Schenck family that are in the museum library’s special collections, including two diaries.

Julie Golia, the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Director of Public History, will cover what can be learned about Brooklyn’s agrarian past from the Lefferts family’s 17th-century bibles, recipe books and other materials.

The event takes place April 8 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Admission is $5, or free to Brooklyn Historical Society members. Buy tickets here. Above, the Dutch Colonial Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, located in Flatlands.

Photo by Wally Gobetz