Here, procure a map for your wanderings, peruse the museum shop, watch the short film covering the city's history, perhaps listen to a historical talk or take in an art show.
There's conversation about gardening — "Well, I always rotate" — and some kind of serious local historical talk: "You see, the problem was they just had no means of support".
To accommodate the viewers' low attention span, the viewing period, which includes a 30-minute art historical talk in German, is reduced to just one hour.
34 But I feel that there's an eruption going on right now, too, and we're not hearing about it yet because of all the historical talk, the need to make schools of poetry, and because of the tendency of people in their 50s and 60s to be telling their history… Jonathan: Rewriting history?
Brooklyn Historical Society: Talking Fiction, Talking Fact (Sunday) This series, co-sponsored by the New York Review of Books, examines the fine, sometimes blurred line between fiction and the reality on which it is sometimes based.
HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM Talk by Diana B. Henriques, investigative reporter for The New York Times.
Although they are costumed (by Rosemarie E. McKelvey) in hoop skirts and period suits, these historical figures talk in exuberantly vulgar slang and break free of their historical shackles to tear off on loopy tangents.
But when it comes to more interesting propositions-assertions of right and wrong, judgments of beauty, grand historical narratives, talk about possibilities, scientific statements about unobservable entities — the objectivity of truth becomes harder to defend.
Mr. Obama spoke about his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, and cast his efforts to retain the presidency in historical terms, talking about "the belief that in America, change is always possible".
