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“Hoboken Talks”: Actor/Producer Douglas Taurel in conversation with Bob Foster
June 21, 2021 @ 12:00 am
The Hoboken Museum is now offering a weekly live-streamed program, “Hoboken Talks” on Thursdays at 7 pm. Viewers are encouraged to participate through the comments on YouTube. Facebook or Twitter.
On June 24, “Hoboken Talks” welcomes actor-producer Douglas Taurel back to the Museum for a conversation with Museum Director Bob Foster. Taurel moved to Hoboken in 2000, and has raised two children here. In conjunction with the Museum’s World War I centennial exhibition in 2018 he produced a one-man show, “An American Soldier’s Journey Home,” based on the life of Irving Greenwald, a soldier who served in World War I in the 308th Infantry Regiment, who was part of the Lost Battalion. Visit his website to learn about his other work, like www.TheAmericanSoldierSoloShow.com, or about his time in Hoboken in a 2016 interview for hMag magazine.
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Coming up next: guest host Pam Strell talks with painter Lou Carbone.
After that: Artist Elizabeth Cohen is joined by Museum Associate Bill Curran.
Past episodes may be replayed any time on YouTube. Recent guests have included restaurateur Dave Carney, NJ poets Joel Lewis and Danny Shot; Bob Drasheff, who served the City of Hoboken in various roles over 25 years under five separate administrations; The Little Grocery owner, Neamet Elsayed, who came to the U.S. from Egypt as a professional soccer player and became a sought-after chef and restaurateur; Todd Abramson, music DJ, talent booker and former co-owner of the legendary Maxwell’s nightclub at 11th and Washington; Bill “Mr. Ocean Liner” Miller, who shared his love of Hoboken, teaching at Hoboken High School, and his vast knowledge of the glory days of ocean liner travel; former Trustee, historic preservation activist and gardening enthusiast Terry Pranses; poet Roxanne Hoffman, who runs the literary press “Poets Wear Prada”; former Hoboken Museum educator Maria Lara; Lisa Rigoux-Hoppe, who just celebrated 20 years of working in the development office at Stevens Institute of Technology; and entrepreneur and fourth generation Hoboken businessman, Greg Dell’Aquila, owner of the Mission 50 coworking space.
Our first guest was Mark Singleton, realtor and active volunteer in local nonprofits such as the Hoboken Shelter, interviewed by Museum Collections Manager Rand Hoppe, who also serves on the Shelter’s board. Other guests have included 1970s Hoboken photographer John Conn; poet Danny Shot, who organizes cultural events across multiple art forms; often with another guest, artist and gallerist Issa Sow; photographer Chris Lopez, who spoke with Bob Foster about a project to document the arson waves that shook Hoboken in the 1980s; and Stevens Institute archivist Leah Loscutoff, who spoke about Hoboken’s founding family, the Stevens.
The variety of guests’ experience says a lot about Hoboken’s diversity: journalist and social media maven Victoria Moyeno is a fourth-generation Hobokenite who spoke about her vivid memories of growing up in a large family in Hoboken. Contemporary local rock ‘n’ roller Karyn Kuhl was interviewed by writer, bon vivant and volunteer extraordinaire, Jack Silbert; and Rand Hoppe interviewed Lois Dilivio about their experience producing literary art zines about Hoboken’s thriving art scene in the 1980s-90s.