The Pigeon Guys: Recollections of Vinnie Torre and Lynne Earing Chapbook Release Event

March 14, 2010

Join us at the Museum for a free event, during which copies of the chapbook will be distributed, refreshments served, and stories told about Hoboken’s pigeon flyers—past and present.

Vinnie Torre has been racing pigeons since the mid-1950s, when veteran “pigeon guys” passed along their skills, and occasionally their birds, to “the kid.” He couldn’t have known it then, but he was learning the flyer’s art during the sport’s last strong years in a city that had once boasted hundreds of rooftop lofts.