Category Archives: Current Projects
Sol Goldberg and A Sow’s Ear in The Bowery Boogie !
http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/04/recap-found-objects-forgotten-stories-at-the-eldridge-street-synagogue/
Also posted in Found Objects, Press, Sol Goldberg biography, Yiddish Land + Jewish Themes
A Green-Wood Summer Respite, In Days of Yore
From http://www.green-wood.com/2012/a-green-wood-summer-respite-in-days-of-yore/ April 3rd, 2012 | Originally published in Green-Wood Discovery, Green-Wood Historian Blog by Historian Jeff Richman Ben Feldman is fascinated by Green-Wood’s permanent residents. He has written two books, both of which were about individuals who lie at Green-Wood: Butchery on Bond Street: Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Ante-bellum New […]
Also posted in Press, William Niblo biography
Chasing a Name Lost to Time: The New York Times
Originally published at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/chasing-a-name-lost-to-time-2/ July 2, 2011 Chasing a Name Lost to Time By JOSEPH BERGER Benjamin P. Feldman, a retired real estate investor with the time and the money to chase his enthusiasms, was rummaging through a bin at a flea market in Chelsea last winter when he came across a weathered leather change […]
Also posted in Press, Sol Goldberg biography
A Sow’s Ear…
“You can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse” goes the popular refrain. I beg to differ, though. Sometimes one may. Browsing among the vast piles of bric-a-brac in a Chelsea flea market right before Hannukah, a tiny leather change purse caught my eye. Sifting through piles of dust-covered junk, golden lettering on the […]
Also posted in Faves, Found Objects, Sol Goldberg biography
A Rite of Return
PART ONE Introduction:We who cherish history know that place matters. We’re accustomed to applying this term to streets, buildings, docks and other physical sites whose preservation we hold dear. But many spaces, un-measurable in feet, un-countable in floors, carry historical heft. Moments in time occupy places in history much as do physical landmarks. Documents, likewise. […]
Also posted in Henry Knight Dyer biography
