As The Beatles captured the hearts of millions, Paul McCartney captured it all on his Pentax film camera. “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm” takes visitors inside the 1963–64 frenzy of Beatlemania, as the band’s first U.S. tour skyrocketed them to global fame. [Read more…] about Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 At The Brooklyn Museum
John Lennon
New York’s Long History of Peace Activism
As a scholarly specialist on the American peace movement, I am sometimes telephoned for background information by journalists writing articles about current demonstrations against war or against nuclear weapons. Almost invariably, they have no idea that the American peace movement has a rich history. Or, if they realize that it does have such a history, they have no idea that that history goes back further than the Vietnam War. This is a very big and unfortunate gap in their knowledge. [Read more…] about New York’s Long History of Peace Activism
John Lennon’s Travels in Ulster County, New York
The Depuy Canal House has sat in High Falls since the 1790s when it was constructed by Simeon Depuy, “one of the most prominent citizens of High Falls, New York.” It opened, according to the Depuy Canal House’s website, as the Stone House Tavern. The tavern entered its heyday when work commenced on the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) canal to link the coal fields of Pennsylvania to the Hudson River in Kingston. This tavern sat on Lock 16, convenient to the canal men until the canal closed in 1899. [Read more…] about John Lennon’s Travels in Ulster County, New York