NY1 Features Roosevelt Island
Here’s a twitter link to a featured NY1 piece on Roosevelt Island.
Jun
7
May
10
June 13, Presentation “The Woman in the Iron Coffin”
Roosevelt Island Historical Society Presents
“The Woman in the Iron Coffin”
Scott Warnasch has been a forensic anthropologist/archaeologist for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, director of the Human Remains Recovery excavations at the World Trade Center site, consultant to the NYPD and FBI on crime scene search and recovery operations, and has recently opened his own consulting business. He will discuss several forensic search and recovery excavation projects, including the mysterious woman in the iron coffin.
Thursday, June 13
6:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Island Branch Library
524 Main Street
Apr
30
Apr
19
May 9th NYPL Presentation “Revisiting Hart Island”
M A Y 9 T H N Y P L L E C T U R E
S P E A K E R :
M e l i n d a H u n t
Over the last few years, Melinda and the Hart Island Project have brought the plight of Hart Island’s deteriorating condition to the public and opened the conversation to make the Island a public park.
Thursday, May 9
6:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Island Branch Library
524 Main Street
Apr
5
Cherry Blossom Tour
Cherry Blossom Tour
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
11:00 a.m.
Meet at RIHS Visitor Center Kiosk
Tram Plaza
Roosevelt Island
Suggested Donation:
$15 – Adults, $10 – Seniors
No Reservations Required
rihs.us
rooseveltislandhistory@gmail.com
Apr
1
Ursula Beau-Seigneur
Our friend and neighbor Ursula Beau-Seigneur passed away March 27th, 2019. Ursula was active in the RIHS for many years. She was a writer and editor of our book “Images of America-Roosevelt Island” in 2003 and the author of the text for our maps of the Island. Quietly, Ursula was a perfectionist and great contributor to our efforts. She was our treasurer and important contributor to our programs and efforts. She would gladly sit at our table at community events and discuss the Society with visitors. Ursula worked for over 25 years at Goldwater Memorial Hospital as the Librarian in the Patient’s Library. She ran writing, poetry, arts Below and many programs for the residents there. Her knowledge of the patrons of the library was great and she went out of her way to accommodate their wishes. As Goldwater closed she transferred to the Coler campus. She reactivated a dormant library into a warm welcoming place for reading, watching videos, using the assistance devices. She retired many years after she needed to. Ursula and I would share dinners and talks of her life, family and many adventures. The last few years she enjoyed the art classes at the Carter Burden Senior Center and showed us her talents in painting. The attached photo is one of her with the painting she completed in the class. Ursula is survived by her brother Dennis Kehoe and family, in California. A memorial service will be scheduled after Easter.
Mar
10
Post Cards From The Penitentiary
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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U P C O M I N G E V E N T S A N N O U N C E M E N T
A P R I L 1 8 T H | N Y P L L E C T U R E
P O S T C A R D S F R O M T H E P E N I T E N T I A R Y
T H U R S D A Y, A P R I L 1 8 T H
S P E A K E R :
J u d i t h B e r d y , P r e s i d e n t o f R I H S
Learn about the Island history through the views and buildings that were featured on postcards long before photographs were common. Postcards have been widely regarded as place-markers of the built environment and yield important information about the past.
Feb
7
Public Lecture Presented by Roosevelt Island Historical Society
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Feb
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Jan
7
Sunday Tea With Mae West
Sunday Tea With Mae West
Click above to chose your level of contribution to RIHS through this event.
THE ROOSEVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO
SUNDAY TEA WITH MAE WEST
February 10, 2019, 2:00–4:00 pm
Welfare Island’s bawdiest Workhouse inmate returns, in person, for an afternoon of:
Gourmet refreshment
Intimate confessions
Risqué repartee
Vintage movies
LIMITED SEATING for a uniquely entertaining event. Get your tickets now by clicking the link
Sunday Tea with Mae West: Credit Card & PayPal
Or, purchase at Visitor Center kiosk: Cash or credit card
Ticket Choices: Please Support RIHS to the Extent You Can
Friend of Mae West: $45
Drinking Companion: $60, includes vintage tea cup memento
Co-Star: $100, includes tea cup plus Mae West biography “She AlwaysKnew How”
Producer: $150, includes tea cup, biography plus “The Essential DVDCollection of 9 Mae West Films” (eg, the seductive and witty “She Done Him Wrong” and “My Little Chickadee”)