Celebrating Community
Red Hook residents know David Sharps as the founder, owner and full-time resident of the Waterfront Museum. Housed on Lehigh Valley Barge #79, docked at the end of Conover Street, the museum celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. What they may not know is that his years on the Red Hook waterfront are just the most recent chapter in an […]
Brooklyn welcomes The Heartland Passage Tour Commemorate the Erie Canal Bicentennial with songs, stories… …and a premiere of an Erie Canal Documentary Party Like it’s 1817 A bicentennial party is floating its way to Brooklyn’s Waterfront Museum, one of the ports of call of the Heartland Passage Tour as it travels west the entire length of the Erie Canal to […]
Katherine Lanpher leans against the pier’s railing in front of the Waterfront Barge Museum. The Statue of Liberty is behind her in the distance. It is a beautiful Saturday evening, but slightly chilly. She takes a deep breath and reads from the paper before her: I believe in those wing’d purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And […]
Leo Liebeskind, the front man of rock and roll band Lovechild, breathed on his fingers to heat them up. “We hope everyone’s warm enough,” he told the audience from center stage, shouldering his guitar with a star-spangled strap. “We sort of are.” The audience laughed, their coats and scarves still on. On Saturday’s cold and rainy night, Lovechild and two other […]
The Lehigh Valley Barge #79, home to the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, will be towed upstream near Albany this summer for necessary inspection and repairs. But before the Barge #79 heads upriver for dry dock, the Museum will be throwing the 2nd annual PIRATE BALL to help finance the expedition and repairs. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy, the US […]