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Dear Members & Friends,

It is difficult to be anything but amazed at the astonishing evolution of our ven- erable institution, from the time a small group of historically-minded citizens gathered at New York’s old City Hall on November 20, 1804 to found the city’s first cultural institution to the moment of our grand reopening on November 11, 2011, when we reintroduced ourselves to the public as New York’s destination for American history and art. Our great New-York Historical Society has grown in importance and usefulness over these more than two hundred years, with hundreds of thousands of annual exhibition visitors and an abundance of riches for our public programs devotees.

This spring continues the marvelous tradition, refined over the past six years by our talented Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory, and her colleagues Nick Mancini and Alexander Kassl, of tying together special exhibitions with related public programs.

A new show on the history of Beer in New York, set to open in our Smith Gallery on May 25, will anchor the summer public program “Beer Appreciation Night: The History and Renaissance of American Brewing,” featuring experts Garrett Oliver and Steve Hindy from the Brooklyn Brewery, with a beer tasting to follow. Beer in New York curators Debra Schmidt Bach and Nina Nazionale will be on hand that night to join the conversation. Space is limited so get your tickets now!

Beer has been brewed in our city and state since the days of its earliest Euro- pean settlement, and the new exhibition will take visitors from the brewery and tavern established by the Dutch West India Company in New Amsterdam in the early 1640s to micro-brewing and home-brewing today.

Our Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speaker Series, the heart of our public programs, will again offer a broad array of discussions on history and current events, together with the Harold and Ruth Newman World Beyond Tomorrow Series, which this spring focuses on technology, featuring the great biographer Walter Isaacson on the prescience of Steve Jobs. I thank our won- George Ehret’s derful trustee Carl Menges for his special support which now allows us to aug- Hell Gate Brewery, ment our public programs offerings in the early American period. I look forward established 1866 Color Lithograph, by to seeing you soon in our beautiful new Robert H. Smith Auditorium! Trautmann, Bailey & Front cover: Blampey, N.Y., Victor Nehlig Bella C. Landauer With all best wishes, An Episode of War— Collection of the Cavalry Charge of Business and Lt. Henry B. Hidden, Advertising 1862 Ephemera Louise Mirrer, PH.D. Oil on canvas New-York Historical PRESIDENT and CEO Gift of William H. Webb New-York Historical Society

Exhibitions

New York Story Film Experience Beer in New York Ongoing May 25, 2012–September 2, 2012

This film is made New York Story is the New-York Historical Society’s 18-minute long panoramic This exhibition traces the fascinating yet largely unknown legacy and cultural possible by a generous film experience. Narrated by award-winning actor and native New Yorker Liev history of beer in New York, from colonial times, when beer was a vital source gift from Bernard and Schreiber, New York Story shows New York’s rise from remote outpost to city at of nourishment as well as tax revenue, to the current artisanal revolution. Topics Irene Schwartz. the center of the world, through the thrilling use of immersive video projection, such as the importance of upstate hops to city brewers and the influence of tem- moving scenic elements, theatrical lighting and surround sound, set in our new perance, immigration and technological innovations will be highlighted through state-of-the-art theater. It was produced by Donna Lawrence Productions. historical objects and documents. The overall vista expands from 25' to 73' wide high-resolution images over the course of the show. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from General Atlantic, the Brooklyn Brewery and the Heartland Brewery. Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn November 11, 2011–April 15, 2012 Beauties of the Gilded Age: Peter Marié’s Miniatures of Society Women Rotation One: November 11, 2011–March 11, 2012; A landmark exhibition rich with objects, documents, maps and works of art Rotation Two: March 13, 2012–July 8, 2012 that explores how the 18th-century American, French and Haitian revolutions shaped our modern ideas of liberty and set the world on a new course of action Between 1889 and 1903, New York socialite Peter Marié (1825-1903) commis- evident in the revolutions erupting around the globe today. Linking the attack on sioned nearly 300 portrait miniatures of women whom he believed epitomized monarchism and aristocracy to the struggle against slavery, Revolution! shows female beauty. These jewel-like miniatures will be exhibited fifteen at a time how freedom, equality and the sovereignty of the people became universal in four-month rotations in a special new gallery designed for intimate viewing. goals. Activists in these conflicts invented the notions of human rights that still fire the desire for justice everywhere. BE SAFE! BE SURE! GET VACCINATED! Made possible by grant funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smallpox, Civil Liberties and Vaccination in New York, 1689-2008 U.S. Department of Education Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural (URR) May 18, 2012–September 2, 2012 program, Saunders Endowment for History Exhibitions, the Ford Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of The eradication of smallpox is one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Get Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Vaccinated! traces the history of vaccination, the conflict between managing dis- ease and the rights of individuals, the effectiveness of public relations campaigns Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy in public health initiatives, bioterrorism and the impact of all epidemics in the city, November 11, 2011–September 9, 2012 including cholera, yellow fever and AIDS. Narrative paintings and sculptures from the New-York Historical Society’s 19th- Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York century collections, including Louis Lang’s newly conserved Civil War master- May 4, 2012–September 2, 2012 piece: The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, 1862, cast new light on the formation of American cultural ideals. This showcase of magnificent silver, culled from the New-York Historical So- ciety’s trove of over 2,500 objects, examines the cultural significance of more The exhibition and publication are made possible by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. than 150 compelling pieces, ranging from family heirlooms to powerful artifacts Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts through the linked to significant moments in the history of New York and the United States. American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, the Walter and Lucille Rubin Foundation, Richard Gilder and Lois Chiles, the Joanne Witty & Eugene Keilin Fund at the New York The exhibition and publication are made possible by generous support from the Tiffany & Community Trust and many generous individuals. Co. Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and Paul Guarner.

Calendar Winter/Spring 2012

Lectures & Conversations Gallery & Walking Tours February April March Thursday, May 17, 6:30pm Tuesday, February 7, 6:30pm Tuesday, April 3, 6:30pm Monday, March 5, 11am Sunday, April 29, 11am Saturday, May 19, 11am The True Gold Standard Women and the White House, The Table Comes First Making American Taste: Gallery Tour The Civil War Draft Riots Washington, Lafayette and the James Grant, Lewis E. Lehrman, Part II Adam Gopnik Linda Ferber Walking Tour Maryland 400 Kati Marton, Cokie Roberts, Edward Chancellor Barnet Schecter Cal Snyder, Lucy Oakley Thursday, April 12, 6:30pm Gil Troy, Lesley Stahl The Invisible Line Thursday, May 24, 6:30pm Thursday, February 16, 6:30pm Daniel J. Sharfstein, Prohibition New York: Art Deco of April The Battle for Civil Rights Brent Staples the 1920s Sunday, April 1, 11am May June David Levering Lewis, Barry Lewis George Washington’s New York: Saturday, May 5, 9am Saturday, June 2, 11am Wednesday, April 18, 6:30pm Khalil Gibran Muhammad Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan The Trees of Central Park: From the Revolution to 1812: Lower When General Grant Expelled the Thursday, May 31, 6:30pm Barnet Schecter Spring Walk Manhattan, Governors Island and the Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm Jews Lincoln and Davis: Leslie Day, Trudy Smoke Forts of New York Will China Take Over the World? Jonathan Sarna, Commanders-in-Chief Saturday, April 21, 9am Cal Snyder, Lucy Oakley Sebastian Mallaby, Steven Rabbi Marc D. Angel James M. McPherson, William C. April Bird Walk Saturday, May 12, 9am Rattner, Byron R. Wien Davis, Harold Holzer Alan Messer May Bird Walk Monday, June 4, 11am Tuesday, April 24, 6:30pm Alan Messer Beer in New York: Gallery Tour The Civil War and the American Debra Schmidt Bach, Constitution Nina Nazionale March Mark E. Neely, Jr., Harold Holzer June Tuesday, March 6, 6:30pm Thursday, June 7, 6:30pm Steve Jobs Private Empire Walter Isaacson May Steve Coll, Kati Marton Thursday, March 15, 6:30pm Thursday, May 3, 6:30pm Thursday, June 21, 6:30pm Living History Days The Draft Riots, Part II Politics and Power: Elections 2012 As Texas Goes... Edna Greene Medford, Beverly Gage, Lesley Stahl Gail Collins Carla Peterson, Barnet Schecter, February March Thursday, May 10, 6:30pm Saturday, March 31, 10am–5pm Harold Holzer Saturday, February 4, 10am–5pm Saturday, March 3, 10am–5pm Greenwich Village: 3rd New Jersey Regiment 4th New York Regiment 4th Battalion, New Jersey Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm The First Bohemia July Volunteers Conquered into Liberty Barry Lewis Tuesday, July 10, 6:30pm Sunday, February 5, 11am–5pm Eliot A. Cohen, Josiah Bunting III Beer Appreciation Night April Steve Hindy, Garrett Oliver, 1st Rhode Island Regiment Sunday, March 4, 11am–5pm Saturday, April 7, 10am–5pm Gabrielle Langholtz, Debra Heard’s Brigade 11th Pennsylvania Regiment Schmidt Bach, Nina Nazionale Saturday, February 11, 10am–5pm Saturday, March 10, 10am–5pm 35th Regiment of Foot 42nd Royal Highland Regiment Saturday, April 14, 10am–5pm Captain John Lamb’s New York Family Programs Saturday, February 18, Sunday, March 11, 11am–5pm Artillery Company 10am–5pm 1st Rhode Island Regiment Mott’s Artillery March April May Saturday, March 17, 10am–5pm July Special March Story Hour: Sunday Scholars Sunday Scholars Sunday, February 19, 11am–5pm 35th Regiment of Foot Wednesday, July 4, 10am–5pm Meet the Author Tonya Bolden Sundays, April 1, 15, 22, 29, Sunday, May 6, 1–3:30pm 1st Rhode Island Regiment July 4th Celebration: Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century 1–3:30pm Sunday, March 18, 11am–5pm 2nd New York Provincial Battalion American Girl Saturday, February 25, Heard’s Brigade Benjamin and Deborah Franklin Sunday, March 18, History Days Family Vacation 10am–5pm 11:30am–12:30pm Week Ongoing 42nd Royal Highland Regiment Saturday, March 24, 10am–5pm Artistic Detectives April 6–13 2nd New Jersey Regiment Sunday Scholars 1st Saturday every month, 11am Sunday, March 25, 1–3:30pm Sunday Story Hour Sundays, 11:30am–12:30pm

B In this powerful program, two experts reflect on the successes and set- S rene A ernard backs in the struggle for civil rights and the changing ways in which the Bernard and Irene Schwartz story of the Civil Rights Movement is told, from early writers and activists

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I nd present. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Freedom Now: Photo- graphs by Platon. S rene z ... S z ... NYU Photo Bureau: Olivo David Levering Lewis is Julius Silver University Professor and Professor A collaboration with: eries chwart Women and the White House, Part II of History at NYU. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his two-part biography The Schomburg Tuesday, February 7, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14) of W.E.B. DuBois and is a recipient of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Center for Research Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Foundation Fellowship. Khalil Gibran Muhammad (moderator) is Director of in Black Culture z D the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. isting Continuing the conversation from last year’s program, we look back at the many u influential and important women in the S ished history of America’s highest elected office

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ABC,Inc. yet to elect a woman to the presidency, many women have played important parts in shaping previous presidential administrations and in changing the roles and Will China Take Over the World? S ien eries the perceptions of women in politics. Tuesday, February 21, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14) F on eries Lesley Stahl (moderator) has been a correspondent for “60 Minutes” since Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets 1991 and is a former CBS News White House correspondent. Kati Marton is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including Hidden Power Armed with the world’s largest population and stunning economic and technological growth, China’s emergence and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America. Cokie Roberts is H inancial a political commentator for ABC News, senior news analyst for National Public as a world superpower has been one of the most dramatic Radio and the author of Ladies of Liberty. Gil Troy is Professor of History at developments of our time. Is China poised to replace the McGill University in Montreal and the author of Leading from the Center: Why United States as the world’s most influential nation? Is that

Moderates Make the Best Presidents and Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing change inevitable? Or has it already happened? Experts istory First Lady. discuss China’s continued rise and how America’s role in world affairs will change.

Sebastian Mallaby is director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeco- nomic Studies and the author of the best seller More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. Steven Rattner, popularly known as the Obama Administration’s “Car Czar,” is the author of Overhaul: An Insider’s Ac- count of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry. Byron R. Wien (moderator) is Vice Chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners.

Ru and arold World Beyond Tomorrow Series Thursday, March 29, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets I nd For more than two centuries, beginning in the 1600s, five peoples — the Steve Jobs British, French, Americans, Canadians and Native Americans — fought S rene a series of fierce, bloody battles over the key to the North American

N th Tuesday, March 6, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14)

Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets continent: the corridor running from Albany to Montreal, dominated by the chwart ... S ... ewman Champlain valley. Eliot A. Cohen and Josiah Bunting III tell the story of how Walter Isaacson tells the riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searing, in- woodland skirmishes and massacres, frontal assaults and shadowy covert z D

tense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and actions shaped America’s approach to geopolitics and war. Kaveh Sardari

ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated isting eries movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing. At a time when Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the

America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Steve Jobs stood as an Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins u icon of inventiveness and imagination. This program is part of a special series, University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. S ished He is the author of Conquered into Liberty. Josiah Bunting III (moderator) is Patrice Gilbert conceived by Harold Newman, examining where we’ve been, where we are and the complexities and possibilities of the world beyond tomorrow. president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, former superintendent of S peakers the Virginia Military Institute and the author of Ulysses S. Grant. Walter Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen Institute and a former chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine. He is author of Steve Jobs. eries The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food

B Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14) A ernard The Draft Riots, Part II Thursday, March 15, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Never before have we cared so much about food. With inimitable charm and

I nd learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey that begins in 18th-cen- In the summer of 1863, in the simmering

S rene tury France — the birthplace of our modern tastes and, by no coincidence, of cauldron of New York City, tensions over the the restaurant — telling the story of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat- new Union draft law boiled over into a vicious, Savarin, who fled to New York during the French Revolution. Mr. Gopnik sur- chwart bloody, racially-motivated riot, the second- veys the history of the table and seeks to understand why so many apparently largest civil insurrection in American history

live to eat. Brigitte Lacombe after the Civil War itself. Experts examine the z ... S z ... Paul Schuster Don Pollard Don Pollard causes of the conflict, its sickening violence Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three- Revolution! and the enduring legacy it left on New York. time winner of the National Magazine Award and the author of the new book eries The Civil War: 150 years The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food. Edna Greene Medford is Professor of History at Howard University and the editor of Historical Perspectives of the African Burial Ground Project: New York Blacks and the Diaspora. Carla Peterson is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her latest book is Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Barnet Schecter is an historian and the author of several books, including The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. Harold Holzer (moderator) is a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the author, coauthor or editor of 42 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. His latest book is Emancipating Lincoln.

A ernard The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey The Civil War and the American Constitution A ernard from Black to White Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Thursday, April 12, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets

I nd Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets I nd The Civil War placed unprecedented — and to this day still unmatched S rene S rene In America, race is a riddle. With the widespread availability of DNA testing — strain on the U.S. Constitution. Conflicts raged over civil liberties, and the boom in genealogical research, it has become even harder to view executive power and the largest questions of nationhood. In this program, chwart that riddle neatly in black or white. Daniel J. Sharfstein, in conversation two eminent Civil War scholars illuminate how the U.S. Constitution not chwart with Brent Staples, unravels the stories of three families who represent the only survived its greatest test, but emerged stronger after the war, at a time complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions when the nation’s very existence was threatened. z D z D Russell about who we are. Henry Balone Don Pollard isting isting

Rusty Mark E. Neely, Jr., is McCabe-Greer Professor of Civil War History at The Civil War: Pennsylvania State University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His latest book Daniel J. Sharfstein is an associate professor of law at Vanderbilt 150 years u University and the author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and is Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American u S ished Civil War. Harold Holzer (moderator) is a winner of the National Humanities S ished the Secret Journey from Black to White. Brent Staples (moderator) has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times since 1990 and is the Medal and the author, coauthor or editor of 42 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. His latest book is Emancipating Lincoln. S peakers author of Parallel Time, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. S peakers eries eries When General Grant Expelled the Jews Politics and Power: Elections 2012 Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14) Thursday, May 3, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets

In December 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order Number Every presidential campaign is a fight for America’s future, and the 2012 11, which expelled all Jews from his military district of Kentucky, Tennessee Election promises to be just as dramatic, contentious and emotional as we and Mississippi in one of the most blatant incidents of officially sanctioned anti- have come to expect from our national politics. Reprising her program from Semitism in U.S. history. What were the reasons for Grant’s Order? What was 2008, Lesley Stahl returns to discuss the candidates and key issues of the

ertheim its effect and why does this event in Civil War history remain relatively unknown? 2012 Election with special guest Beverly Gage.

Joseph W Jonathan Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Beverly Gage is a professor of 20th-century U.S. history and is the author Jewish History at Brandeis University and chief historian of the National Museum of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of The Civil War: of American Jewish History. Rabbi Marc D. Angel (opening remarks) is Rabbi Terror. She often appears on “PBS NewsHour” discussing politics. Lesley Stahl 150 years Emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel and Founder and Director of the (moderator) has been a correspondent for “60 Minutes” since 1991. Prior to join- Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. ing “60 Minutes,” she served as CBS News White House correspondent and has actively covered national political conventions and election nights since 1974.

A ernard Greenwich Village: The First Bohemia Prohibition New York: Art Deco of the 1920s A ernard Thursday, May 10, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Thursday, May 24, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets I nd I nd New York’s first Bohemian neighborhood was Greenwich Village in the 1910s, Art Deco was the signature style of the boom times we call the Jazz Age. In New S rene when everyone from Edna St. Vincent Millay to John Sloan made “the Village” York, it coincided with the emergence of a new society that was breaking down S rene their hangout. It became so hip that by the 1920s the Bohemian era was over, Victorian mores and kicking up its heels. Then it all came to a sudden halt in 1929

chwart due to rising rents and new luxury apartment buildings...until the next disaffected when the stock market crashed. Join us to see New York’s first self-conscious chwart generation took up the Village’s mantra of non-conformism. Join us for this embrace of the “new,” the last time “modernism” had fun. lecture and slide show — back by popular demand — with architectural historian z D z D

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eries The True Gold Standard Lincoln and Davis: Commanders-in-Chief eries Thursday, May 17, 6:30 pm | Program $28 (members $14) Thursday, May 31, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets

From the time of Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon One president was a West Point-trained Mexican War (with a time out for the Civil War), every American dollar veteran and a former Secretary of War. The other had was backed by gold and/or silver. In this program, three virtually no military training except in a bloodless Indian economists discuss the history of the Gold Standard and war, yet emerged as the far greater commander-in-chief weigh the potential benefits and drawbacks that would during the Civil War. Why the experienced Jefferson Davis come with its reinstatement. Why did America abandon it faltered, while the untested Abraham Lincoln triumphed, Sigrid Estrada David K. Crow in 1971? And what would need to happen for America to remains one of the great mysteries of American history — Glenn Comeau Don Pollard return to a gold-based monetary system? as explored by this expert panel. The Civil War: 150 years James Grant is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American the author of Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed—The Man History Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of numerous books on Who Broke The Filibuster. Lewis E. Lehrman is senior partner of the investment the Civil War, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize. firm L. E. Lehrman & Co. and the author of several books, including The True William C. Davis is the author of Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour, as well Gold Standard. Edward Chancellor (moderator) is a member of GMO’s asset as the on-camera senior consultant for 52 episodes of the Arts & Entertainment allocation team and focuses on capital market research. He has worked as a Network/History Channel series “Civil War Journal.” Harold Holzer (moderator) financial commentator and has written forThe Wall Street Journal and New York is a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the author, coauthor or editor Times, among others. of 42 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. His latest book is Emancipating Lincoln.

A ernard Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Beer Appreciation Night: A ernard Thursday, June 7, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) The History and Renaissance of American Brewing Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets Tuesday, July 10, 6:30 pm | Program & Beer Tasting combined ticket $49 (Members $37) I nd Program only $24 (members $12) I nd

S rene As the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company, ExxonMobil’s Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets S rene annual revenues are greater than the economic activity of most coun-

chwart tries, equivalent to the GDP of Norway. In many of the countries where chwart it conducts business, the company’s sway over politics and security is A century ago, New York City was a major brewing center, greater than that of the United States embassy. Steve Coll acutely sheds home to more than 100 breweries. The last of those great

z D light on ExxonMobil and the larger-than-life characters who have contrib- breweries, Schaefer and Rheingold, closed their doors in z D

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Lauren Shay Lavin uted to its colossal story. since the early 1600s. Today, there are five craft brewer- Brewery Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. He is presi- ies in the city that are part of a national movement based u u S ished S ished Brooklyn Brewery dent of New America Foundation and the author of the new book Private Empire: on the brewing traditions founded in Europe. Ironically, the Brooklyn European brewers are now looking to America for their in- ExxonMobil and American Power. Kati Marton (moderator) is an award-winning Beer in New York journalist and the author of seven books, including Hidden Power and Enemies of spiration. S peakers S peakers the People: My Family’s Journey to America. A special tasting of Garrett Oliver is brewmaster for Brooklyn Brewery and editor-in-chief of The Brooklyn Brewery Oxford Companion to Beer. Steve Hindy, an expert on New York brewing, beers will follow the is cofounder of Brooklyn Brewery and coauthor of Beer School: Bottling program. See ticket eries pricing above. eries Success at the Brooklyn Brewery. Gabrielle Langholtz (moderator) is editor As Texas Goes… of the magazines Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan. She fell in love with Thursday, June 21, 6:30 pm | Program $24 (members $12) Brooklyn while at college in Virginia, where her local bar had Brooklyn Brewery Stout on tap. Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets

Not until she visited Texas, that proud state of big oil and bigger ambitions, did Debra Schmidt Bach and Nina Nazionale, curators of the exhibition Beer in Gail Collins realize that she had missed the place that matters most in America’s New York, join the conversation. Also, don’t miss their curatorial gallery tour on political landscape. Through its vigorous support of banking deregulation, tax June 4 (see page 21). cuts, gun ownership and more, she argues that Texas has become the bellwether of a far-reaching national movement that continues to have profound social and economic implications for us all. The New York Times Gail Collins is a national columnist for The New York Times and the author of the new book As Texas Goes…

Jacob Ruppert Beer-Ale Metal bar tray, 1900-1920 Gift of Bella C. Landauer New-York Historical Society

& T alks The Trees of Central Park: Spring Walk & T alks Walks & Talks Saturday, May 5, 9 am | Program $24 (members $12)

alks Home to over 100 species of trees, Central Park is a superb place to observe alks George Washington’s New York: Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan specimens both native and transplant alike. Journey through the park and Sunday, April 1, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12) learn how to identify some of the trees that call it home. Apple, cherry, dog- Among the maps that George Washington owned was British military engineer wood and magnolia are among the many specimens we will see reawakening John Montresor’s A Plan of the City of New-York, surveyed in 1766, which provid- from their winter hibernation. Walking tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. ed him with detailed information as he fortified the city against a British assault in Please buy tickets in advance. 1776. Using Montresor’s map, Barnet Schecter leads a walking tour of key sites of the city Washington considered the key to victory in the American Revolution. Leslie Day is a biology and life-science teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow Walking tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance. School. She developed the City Naturalists Summer Institute with the Central Park Conservancy and is the author of Field Guide to the Street Trees of New Don Pollard Barnet Schecter is the author of George Washington’s America: A Biography York City illustrated by Trudy Smoke, who has studied botanical illustration at Revolution! Through His Maps and The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the the New York Botanical Garden since 2004. She is Professor of English at Hunter Fight to Reconstruct America. College.

The Civil War Draft Riots Walking Tour Washington, Lafayette and the Maryland 400: A Walking Tour Sunday, April 29, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12) Saturday, May 19, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12)

In July 1863, several months after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation The Colonial Army first met the British in today’s Prospect Park. Walk the Proclamation and signed the nation’s first federal draft law, New York City was battlefield with Cal Snyder and Lucy Oakley, starting at Battle Pass, then nearly destroyed in a four-day cataclysm of arson, looting and lynching. Join find Stanford White’s striking but little-known memorial to the Maryland historian Barnet Schecter for an in-depth look at the festering racial and class 400; see Daniel Chester French’s surpassing tribute to Lafayette and the conflicts that produced the deadliest riots in American history. Walking tours are Old Stone House. Other sites of tribute will be seen, including the statue limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance. “Angel of Death” and Grand Army Plaza. Walking tours are limited to 35

Don Pollard guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance. Barnet Schecter is the author of George Washington’s America: A Biography The Civil War: Through His Maps and The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Revolution! 150 years Fight to Reconstruct America. From the Revolution to 1812: Lower Manhattan, Governors Island and the Forts of New York Saturday, June 2, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12)

In America’s infancy, New York City was at the center of two major wars: the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Join us as we explore the city’s role in these conflicts. We will visit Washington’s statue at Federal Hall, a tribute to patriot Marinus Willett and learn the history of the forts of New York Harbor. The tour will conclude with a visit to Fort Jay and Castle William on Governors Island. Walking tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance.

Cal Snyder is the author of Out of Fire and Valor: The War Memorials of New York City from the Revolution to 9/11. Lucy Oakley is Head of Education and Programs at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery.

18 To purchase tickets by phone call (212) 485-9268 To purchase tickets online visit nyhistory.org/programs 19 letter | exhibitions | calendar | programs | walks & talks | family | membership | general information W W & T alks Spring Migration Walks in the Ramble Gallery Tours & T alks alks alks In the heart of New York City’s bustling metropolis, Central Park’s 38-acre Ramble Making American Taste: Gallery Tour is a bird watcher’s paradise, where more than 270 species have been spotted in Monday, March 5, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12) a single year. With New York being located along one of North America’s busiest migratory routes, the spring months are an ideal time to spot the city’s avian Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets visitors on their trip north. In the 19th century, the place of the arts in a democracy was a hotly debated topic in the United States. The exhibition Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a Journey with wildlife artist and illustrator Alan Messer to some of the most New Democracy integrates the broad range of styles and narrative themes — magical places in Central Park’s wooded Ramble, discovering along the way from history, literary and religious subjects to the more familiar rural and domestic both resident and migrating birds. Walks are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please genres — through which Americans were expected to attain cultural refinement. buy tickets in advance. Join Senior Art Historian Linda S. Ferber for an intimate tour of the exhibition, featuring 55 works from the New-York Historical Society’s collection. Gallery tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance. April Bird Walk Linda S. Ferber is Vice President and Senior Art Historian at the New-York Saturday, April 21, 9 am | Program $24 (members $12) Historical Society. During the April walk through Central Park’s Ramble, we will search for resident, late winter and early migrants, including common birds at feeders. Chickadees, Beer in New York: Gallery Tour nuthatches, woodpeckers, finches and sparrows may be seen at this time. Monday, June 4, 11 am | Program $24 (members $12) Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets

In the past three decades, New York City has become an important center May Bird Walk of craft brewing, marking the resurgence of an important trade practiced in Saturday, May 12, 9 am | Program $24 (members $12) New York City and State since the days of its earliest European settlement. Explore this fascinating yet largely unknown legacy with a special tour During the spring migration in May, delight in the colorful warblers, humming- of the exhibition Beer in New York, led by curators Nina Nazionale and birds, tanagers and thrushes. Debra Schmidt Bach. Gallery tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance. Glenn Castellano Glenn Joan A Katz Alan Messer is a wildlife artist and illustrator of books, field guides and periodi- cals. He is a former president of the Linnaean Society of New York. His paintings Debra Schmidt Bach is Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the New-York may be viewed at alanmesser.net. Historical Society and the former Tiffany & Co. Foundation Research Fellow in American Silver. Nina Nazionale is Director of Library Operations at the New- York Historical Society, where she has worked since 1999. They are co-curators of the exhibition Beer in New York.

Public Programs Podcast Highlights American Revolution Living History Days Fun for Kids and Their Parents! Did you miss one of the exciting evening public programs at the New-York Historical Society? Audio recordings of these and other programs are now available at www.nyhistory.org as streaming audio and downloadable podcasts. A selection of New-York Historical’s podcasts is also available on History comes alive for the whole family with Living History Days at the New-York Historical iTunesU. Log onto nyhistory.org/iTunesU, download your selections to your Society! Do you want to know what life was like in the 18th century? Please join us as re-enactment MP3 player and listen anywhere. troops and Living History actors recreate the world of Revolutionary America. Living History Days will feature appearances by troops of the Continental, Loyalist, British and Hessian armies. Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View 5/31/11 With Associate Justice Stephen Breyer Every Saturday and Select Sundays through April 15 Join us from 10am-5pm on Saturdays and 11am-5pm on select Sundays. For a full list of dates, Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson 11/16/11 appearances, troops and Living History actors, and for updated information and biographies, With Susan Hertog please visit www.nyhistory.org. Free with Museum Admission!

American and Haitian Revolutions and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade 11/17/11 Celebratory Living History Days include: With David Brion Davis, Peter P. Hinks, Richard J. M. Blackett and David W. Sundays, February 5 and 19, 2012 Blight Celebrate Black History Month and meet soldiers from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, one of the earliest American military units to actively enlist African Americans. A Contest for Supremacy 11/28/11 With Aaron L. Friedberg Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Join us as we celebrate our nation’s independence. Meet Benjamin and The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States 11/29/11 Deborah Franklin as well as Continental troops. With Gordon S. Wood and Richard Brookhiser

Civilization: The West and the Rest 12/8/11 With Niall Ferguson

Civil War at Sea 12/13/11 With James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds and Harold Holzer

New York Cool: Friday Night Music Take Your Seat in History Presented by Bank of America At New York's Front Row On History

New-York Historical Free Friday Night Music The Robert H. Smith Auditorium, our brand new, state-of-the-art theater, can accommodate an Society is grateful to Friday evenings, 6:30–7:30 pm expanded schedule of the New-York Historical Society's evening lectures, performances, special Bank of America for underwriting April 20, 27 events and educational programs, in addition to a multimedia cinematic experience for museum New York Cool. May 4, 11, 18, 25 visitors of all ages. June 1, 8 To learn more about how you can “Take Your Seat in History," The New-York Historical Society presents a free concert series highlighting please visit www.nyhistory.org/takeyourseat or call (212) 485-9217. New York’s musical history-makers, past and present. This eight concert series features hip, well known and emerging names in music from across the spectrum of classical, jazz and popular musical genres. First come, first served. Refreshments are available for purchase. Funders Highlights from this series include: In addition to the generous support of individual donors, the New-York Historical Society would like to thank Missy Modell (April 20), the Leonhart family, featuring Jay Leonhart The London Souls (April 27); The London Souls (May 4); and Ted Rosenthal Quintet (June 1). the following corporations, foundations and government agencies for their support:

For full program information visit www.nyhistory.org or call Corporate Foundation 42nd Street Development Corporation The Achelis and Bodman The New York Community Trust (212) 873-3400, ext 363. American Express Foundation Foundations Peck Stacpoole Foundation Arnold & Porter LLP Anonymous The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Bank of America Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Pinkerton Foundation The Blackstone Group LP The Barker Welfare Foundation Pine Tree Foundation Bloomberg The Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore The Pritzker Foundation Cablevision Foundation Rice Family Foundation The American Musicals Project Cauldwell Wingate Construction Bloomberg Philanthropies Robertson Foundation Company Children’s Aid Society Sansom Foundation Annual Gala Benefit Consolidated Edison, Inc. The Coby Foundation The Starr Foundation Credit Suisse The Felicia Fund Terra Foundation for American Art Monday, March 26, 6–9:30 pm Donna Lawrence Productions The Ford Foundation The Vidda Foundation Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Walter and Lucille Rubin Join us for our 14th annual gala concert, Making History with American General Atlantic Kaplan Fund Foundation Music, featuring top Broadway talent and an elegant dinner by Stephen Starr Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of Events — all in support of the American Musicals Project (AMP). An in- Graham Windham American History Government Investment Technology Group, Inc. The Hearst Foundations Institute of Museum and Library novative education program, AMP combines American musical theater with JPMorgan Chase & Co. The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Services primary source materials from the New-York Historical Society’s renowned Knight Capital Group, Inc. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation National Endowment for the Arts collection to engage young learners in the study of history. AMP has been Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel The H.W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. National Endowment for the bringing history to life in hundreds of classrooms around our city and beyond LLP The Hyde and Watson Foundation Humanities for the last 14 years, and your support will help us continue our mission. Kynikos Associates LP Kurt Weill Foundation for Music National Historical Publications Dine in our beautiful galleries surrounded by magnificent works of art fol- Mizuho Securities USA The Leon Levy Foundation and Records Commission lowed by a concert in our new state-of-the-art auditorium — or choose to Morgan Stanley The Leona M. and Harry B. New York City Department of attend the concert followed by a champagne toast at its conclusion. We look Nelson Air Device Helmsley Charitable Trust Cultural Affairs, in partnership forward to having you join us for this most special evening! The New York Foundling The Marc Haas Foundation with the City Council The New York Stock Exchange May and Samuel Rudin Family New York Council for the Pfizer Foundation, Inc. Humanities For more information, to purchase tickets or to make a donation, please Platt Byard Dovell White Architects The Max and Victoria Dreyfus New York State Council on the Arts contact us at [email protected] or (212) 485-9217. LLP Foundation New York State Education Porterfield & Lowenthal, LLC The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Department United Healthcare Services, Inc. Horowitz Foundation for the U.S. Department of Education Verizon Arts, Inc. Underground Railroad Watchtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz The Nathan Cummings Educational and Cultural Ziff Brothers Investments Foundation Program

family Programs About the DiMenna Children’s History Museum

At the New-York Historical Society, we believe that knowing where we came from helps us understand who we are now. That goes for kids too, which is why we created the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, the first-ever museum Sunday Story Hour bringing American history to life through the eyes of children. Families use a Every Sunday at 11:30 am broad selection of games, museum objects, maps and interactives to build their understanding of events and eras of the past. From the 17th century to the 21st, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of New York City and the people who made it great. Visit www.nyhistory.org for a schedule of themes, authors, illustrators and storytellers. Historic Figure Pavilions: Discover the past through these six pavilions and experience what life was like for: Please Note: Special March Story Hour: Meet the Author Tonya Bolden Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Sunday Story Hour 4 Cornelia van Varick, a Dutch girl who lived in New Amsterdam around 1700; programs free with Sunday, March 18, 11:30 am Museum Admission 4 Alexander Hamilton, a teenager from the West Indies who would become Meet Tonya Bolden and hear her read excerpts from her book Maritcha: A Nine- the secretary of the treasury; teenth-Century American Girl. It tells the true story of a young black girl who was born free and raised in New York City during the middle of the 19th century. 4 James McCune Smith, an abolitionist and America’s first African American doctor; 4 Esteban Bellán, a Cuban immigrant and the first Latino to play professional baseball; Family Learning Programs 4 Orphan Train Riders, New York City children placed with families across the For Adults and Their Children, Ages 5–12 nation; 4 Newsies, children who provided the news for all New Yorkers at the turn of Please Note: Artistic Detectives the century and who led a successful labor strike. Artistic Detectives First Saturday of every month at 11 am program $4 per child Look, imagine, draw and create! Each month families explore history through art- History Detectives: making in this educator-led gallery and studio program. Our History Detectives pavilion introduces the kinds of questions that historians ask every day. How can we draw meaning from the surviving remnants of earlier times? How do we know what we know about the past? Practice your history detective clues and questions throughout the whole museum. Please Note: History Days Family Vacation Week History Days Family April 6–13, 2012 Vacation Week Historical Viewfinder: programs free with Show off your history skills at our daily family quiz show; drop in for some art Use the viewfinders to see how New York City’s neighborhoods have changed Museum Admission making or join our history scavenger hunt. Visit www.nyhistory.org for a sched- over time. ule of programs. Cast Your Vote and First President: Families discover what it feels like to participate in a democracy at these pavilions, where they can recite the presidential oath of office, take their picture Sunday Scholars as George Washington or play a game that shows how voting rights have Sundays, March 25, April 1, 15, 22, 29, and May 6, 1–3:30 pm changed over time.

Historians and Art Historians regularly come to the New-York Historical Society Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library: to conduct research. Now, budding scholars will have the chance to do the same. In the library children explore the printed world of New York. Digital images of High school students from the New York City metropolitan area are invited to rare texts are on display, as well as an interactive atlas, maps of old New York, spend six Sunday afternoons examining art, artifacts and documents. Together, books and drawers full of artifacts. Plus, every Sunday at 11:30 am there is a they will choose and research a topic in American History and create a video free story hour, where kids can hear the stories of New York. guide to the museum’s collections for New-York Historical Society’s website.

Free with Family Membership or $125 per student for Non-Members. RSVP to [email protected].

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All New-York Historical Society exhibition films are open captioned. Museum & Tuesday to Thursday & Saturday, 10 am–6 pm, Friday, 10 am–8 pm, Sunday, 11 am–5 pm Store Hours American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters are available (by appointment) to accompany scheduled docent or educator led group Museum Admission $15 Adults, $12 Seniors (65+)/Educators/Active Military, $10 Students, $5 Kids (7-13), Children under 7 are free. tours. To schedule an ASL group visit, please contact [email protected] Friday nights from 6–8 pm admission is “Pay-as-you-wish.” or call (212) 485-9232.

Verbal-description audio tours exist for selected exhibitions. Ask about Program Admission Unless noted: $24 (members $12) Services for Visitors Who Are Blind or the verbal-description tour at the admissions desk. Verbal-description docent-guided tours for select exhibitions are available by appointment and Library Hours Tuesday to Friday, 9 am–3 pm, Saturday 10 am–1 pm (additional hours by Visually Impaired appointment). Closed Sunday and Monday. The Library is closed on Saturdays are free with museum admission. Please call (212) 485-9232 to make an from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Use of the Library is free. Please use appointment. our 2 West 77th Street entrance if arriving prior to 10 am. Text for all exhibitions is available in Large Print, please pick up a Trained docents give one-hour tours of the Robert H. and Clarice Smith New copy either at the admissions desk, near the exhibition entrances or Free Daily Guided download them from nyhistory.org/visit/accessibility-amenities. Tours York Gallery of American History at 2 pm. If you need more information about accessibility. Please either email your Download To help you navigate and learn more about the New York and the Nation installations in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American questions to [email protected] or you can call (212) 485-9232 or Our Free App (212) 873-7489 (TTY). (iPhone/iPad/ History, the New-York Historical Society’s inaugural app features videos Android) with curators and historians as well as high-resolution images and audio descriptions for more than 150 objects on display. To download the app, visit nyhistory.org/visit/audio-tours. New-York Historical Society Floor Plan Restaurant The New-York Historical Society is proud to announce the opening of Caffè Fourth Floor Storico located on our first floor. Restaurant hours are Monday to Thursday The Henry Luce III Center for the First Floor Study of American Culture 11 am–10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am–11 pm, Sunday 11 am–10 pm. 1 Admissions/Coat Check 1 Paintings 2 Orientation Area Subway: B or C train to 81st Street and Central Park West 2 Audubon 3 Robert H. and Clarice Smith Directions 3 Portraits of the City New York Gallery of American Bus: M10 to 77th Street, M79 to 81st Street and Central Park West 4 Tiffany Glass History Public Parking Garages: (all are located between Broadway and 5 Furniture 4 Robert H. Smith Auditorium Amsterdam) Wilfred Street Garage, 203 West 77th Street, (212) 362-2308; 6 Decorative Objects (Silver, 5 Robert H. and Clarice Smith Tri-Star Parking, 207 West 76th Street, (212) 496-8553; Carousel Parking, Glass and Ceramics) New York Gallery of American 7 Tools for Home and Trade History (South Gallery) 201 West 75th Street, (212) 874-0581 8 Sculpture and Folk Art 6 West Gallery 9 Historic Relics and Artifacts 7 Museum Store E-mail Notices To receive e-mail notices and updates for upcoming events, activities and from 9/11 8 Rotunda programs, please e-mail us at [email protected] with “e-mail 10 Temporary Exhibitions 9 Caffè Storico 11 East Mezzanine: Coins, Military, announcements” in the subject line. Firefighting, Urban Archaeology Lower Level 12 North Mezzanine: Toys, Jewelry N-YHS facilities, galleries and auditorium are wheelchair accessible. Accessories, Textiles 1 DiMenna Children’s History Services for Visitors 13 Paintings Storage Museum with Mobility A wheelchair accessible entrance is located at 2 West 77th Street. 2 Barbara K. Lipman Children’s Impairments Wheelchairs are available to visitors free of charge. It is advisable to reserve History Library in advance by calling (212) 485-9200 or (212) 873-7489 (TTY). Please ask Second Floor 3 Classroom 1 security for assistance when you arrive. 1 Patricia D. Klingenstein Library 4 Classroom 2 2 Civil Rights Gallery 3-5 The Luman Reed Galleries Services for Visitors Most exhibition audio and video including all media in the DiMenna 6 Dexter Hall Who Are Deaf or Children’s History Museum is accessible to t-coil hearing aid users. 7 Barbara Knowles Debs T-coil compatible audio guides are available for Revolution! and are free with Education Center Hard of Hearing 8 Departments of Prints, admission. Headsets and neckloops are also available. Please inquire at the Photographs and Architectural admissions desk. Collections (by appointment only) 9 Cabinet Gallery

New-York Historical Society Vice Chairs Members Norman S. Benzaquen Nira and Kenneth Abramowitz Dr. Reina Marin and Emilio Bassini Board of Trustees 2012 Charles Cahn Lorraine and Richard Abramson Doris and Gilbert Meister Suzanne and Rich Clary Jacqueline Adams Ronay and Richard Menschel Barbara and Richard Debs Arthur S. Ainsberg Ira M. Millstein Chairman Board of Trustees Chairman’s Council John R. Doss Kay Allaire Louise Mirrer and David Halle Roger Hertog Helen Appel Patricia Dunnington Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Amdur Dinny and Lester Morse James Basker Chair The Everett Foundation Betsy Harvin and Travis Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Neal Moszkowski William Beekman Vice Chair Pam B. Schafler Mary Ann Fribourg Jody and John Arnhold Sarah E. Nash and Michael S. Norman Benzaquen Lucy and William Friedman Bunny and Bill Beekman Sylvester Pam B. Schafler Judith Roth Berkowitz Co-chairs Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Ann and Kenneth Bialkin John L. 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