To register and for more information mcny.org/newdeal – Use code LND for $10.00 tickets!
Reception to follow. The Living New Deal Map will also be available for purchase after the event.
Tag: FDR
May 11th 2017 Roosevelt House – The New Deal in New York City
Thursday, May 11, 2017
6:00 p.m.
Roosevelt House
http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/
Roosevelt House’s latest exhibit celebrates the vast range of projects funded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. Whether brick-and-mortar or jobs in the theater, arts or education, thousands were employed, the city transformed, and morale boosted. Hundreds of these projects can be found on the new map published by the Living New Deal, which will be featured in the exhibit and during the panel discussion.
This special discussion will feature Owen Gutfreund (moderator), Hilary Ballon, Ira Katznelson, William Leuchtenburg, and Richard Walker.
Free Event – “Sidney Robertson Cowell and the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-40”
FREE EVENT – TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2017 at Noon (Whittall Pavilion)
“Sidney Robertson Cowell and the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-40”
Cathy Kerst, American Folklife Center
Get free tickets from Eventbrite
(tickets available 01/04/2017, beginning at 10 AM)
Kathy Flynn’s Podcast
Hear Kathy Flynn’s Podcast on the Richard Eeds show from Aug. 30, at 9am on KVSF – Santa Fe, NM! Kathy talks about the upcoming NNDPA’s Annual Fundraiser.
Hear Kathy Flynn, on Richard Eeds,
13 PRESIDENTS Book Launch
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
is pleased to present
FDR Presidential Library and Home
Marisa J.
Futernick
author of
13 PRESIDENTS
September 1, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Henry A. Wallace Center at the The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is pleased to present an author talk and book signing with Marisa J. Futernick, author of 13 PRESIDENTS. The program will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 1, 2016 in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. Following the presentation, Futernick will be available to sign copies of her book. This event is free and open to the public.
In 2014, Marisa J. Futernick drove nearly ten thousand miles across America, visiting all thirteen of the country’s Presidential libraries along the way. 13 PRESIDENTS is the result: an artist’s book that combines photographs from the journey with a suite of short stories. Mixing fact and fiction, each President from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush is a protagonist in this collection of unexpected portraits.
The photographs, shot on analogue film, depict the everyday details of the towns that these men are from, including the homes where they were born, and their final resting places. 13 PRESIDENTS weaves together personal narrative with wider cultural
Newsletters and Bulletins
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August/September 2015 Newsletter
Bulletin #4
May 2014 “Fireside Chat” on the Federal Theater Project’s 1937 production of “The Cradle Will Rock”
Bulletin #3
April 2014
New Deal License Plates Are Available Again (see the new designs)
Bulletin #2
September 2013
Take Note of CCC’s 80th Anniversary
Bulletin #1
August 2013
Saving Our New Deal Post Offices
Newsletter
Winter 2013