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At PortSide NewYork we make history fun.
Experience that yourself on Thursday, September 24.
As part of our Red Hook WaterStories, PortSide has created a special evening that combines local Norwegian waterfront history and bluegrass music, incorporating the New York premier of a fantastic bluegrass band from Norway, the Paradise Mountain Boys and compelling stories about Norwegians in Red Hook, on our MARY A. WHALEN and the waters beyond.
Tickets are $15. Cash bar (beer and wine), BYO food or take-out, in the relaxed lounge setting of Atelier Roquette.
Via talks, a
silent film from 1931, photos and books, find out how the first people to row across the
Atlantic were two
Norwegian immigrants in 1896 (no Gor-Tex was involved), how Norwegian seaman stranded here in the 1920s toughed it out in
a
Red Hook shanty town,
how Alf Dyrland left
Norway as a 14-year old cabin boy an
d went on to become Captain of our ship
MARY A. WHALEN
for twenty years.
You can be interviewed yourself and give us a WaterStory or sign up to do that in the future.
Norwegians were one of the major immigrant groups in N
ew York City from around 1880 to 1920.
They were first concentrated in Red H
ook, Brooklyn.
For decades, Norwegians were a major presence on NYC's working waterfront and on our historic ship, the tanker MAR
Y A. WHALEN.
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From the collection of Alf Dyrland
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Thanks to the Paradise Mountain Boys for donating this "Artists for PortSide" concert. Thanks for tech support from Hughes Media Group and Pioneer Works, and thanks to Atelier Roquette for the venue. Supported by funding from Councilman Carlos Menchaca.
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