20160410 – Something New Jersey

Something New (Jersey) III

Something New (Jersey) III: A Celebration of NJ Poets

April 10, 2016, 3-5 pm

Location: Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

New Jersey has produced some of the most distinctive voices in American poetry: William Carlos Williams, Joyce Kilmer, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, to name a few. On Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m., the Hoboken Historical Museum, in partnership with nonprofit publisher CavanKerry Press, will host the third annual celebration of the vibrant diversity of New Jersey’s poetic talent, “Something (New) Jersey,” featuring a new group of contemporary poets. The Museum is located at 1301 Hudson St., Hoboken. All are welcome, and a $5 donation is suggested.

This two-hour public event will feature 10 New Jersey poets reading a selection of their own work. The poets taking part this year include Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Ernest Hilbert, Eliot Katz, Nancy Mercado, Lamont Steptoe, Rich Villar, BJ Ward, Teresa Carson, NJ “Poetry Out Loud” contest winner Celeste Sena (of Jersey City), and Hoboken Historical Museum’s Poet in Residence, Danny Shot. The Museum’s previous poetry events have exceeded seating capacity; arrive early to secure a seat.

Participating Poets:

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, the Poets & Writers’ 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and the 2008 American Book Award for All That Lies Between Us. She has published 20 books and is Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, N.J., and director of the creative writing program/professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. www.mariagillan.com.

Ernest Hilbert’s debut poetry collection, Sixty Sonnets (2009), was described by X.J. Kennedy as “maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America.” His second collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), has been hailed as a “wonder of a book,” “original and essential,” an example of “sheer mastery of poetic form,” containing “some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht.” His third collection, Caligulan (2015), has been called “brutal yet beautiful,” defined by “pleasure, clarity, and discipline,” “tough-minded and precise,” filled with a “stern, witty, and often poignant music,” “a page-turner in a way most poetry books can never be.” He was raised in Mt. Holly, N.J., and currently lives over the river in Philadelphia.

Eliot Katz is the author of seven books of poetry—including Unlocking the Exits and Love, War, Fire, Wind—and has been a longtime activist for a wide range of peace and social-justice causes. Katz’s most recent book is a readable, scholarly volume, entitled The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg. He currently lives in Hoboken with his partner, the writer Vivian Demuth.

Nancy Mercado is the editor of the Nuyorican Women Writers Anthology published in Voices e/Magazine for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College-CUNY; an online literary journal. She is a guest curator for the Museum of American Poetics and assistant editor for Eco-poetry.org; a website dedicated to addressing the issue of climate crisis. She traveled to Havana, Cuba, by invitation, to present her work at Casa de las Americas, was featured on National Public Radio’s “The Talk of the Nation,” and on the PBS NewsHour Special: “America Remembers 9/11.” Mercado served as the Guest Editor of Phati’tude Literary Magazine’s issue; ¿What’s in a Nombre? Writing Latin@ Identity in America, and as an editor of the acclaimed underground literary and art publication: Long Shot, for 11 years. She also served as the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. The author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions) and editor of if the world were mind, a children’s’ anthology published by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Mercado also authored seven plays which have all been theatrically produced. Nancy Mercado continues to present her work throughout the U.S. and abroad. For more information, go to: www.nancy-mercado.com

Lamont B. Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founder of Whirlwind Press, he is the author of twelve collections of poetry and editor of two collections by the late South African poet, Dennis Brutus.  Steptoe is winner of an American Book award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.  His latest collection is Meditations in Congo Square.

Rich Villar is a writer, performer, editor, activist, and educator originally from Paterson, N.J. His first collection of poems, Comprehending Forever (Willow Books), was a finalist for the 2015 International Latino Book Award, and his work was recently anthologized in Poetry of Resistance (University of Arizona Press). He teaches poetry and prose to all ages in various settings, both traditional and nontraditional, and he is an alumnus of both the Bread Loaf and VONA/Voices workshops.

BJ Ward is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent, Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems 1990-2013, received the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The New York Times, The Normal School, and The Sun. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts.

Celeste Sena is a senior at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City. She represents New Jersey in the Poetry Out Loud National 2016 Finals, to be held May 2-4th in Washington, D.C. She studied for two years at the Performing Arts Workshop in Jersey City, building craft in monologues, scene work and improv with Nicole L. Lorenzetti. Ms. Sena trained for seven years with the Junior Division at the Ailey School/Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. She will study acting for stage and screen in college. Celeste is a Shonda Rhimes fan, and hopes this is her own Year of Yes.

The organizers of the event are Teresa Carson, Associate Publisher of CavanKerry Press, and Danny Shot, Poet in Residence at the Hoboken Historical Museum, along with Robert Foster, Executive Director of the Hoboken Historical Museum. Carson is a poet as well as publisher at the not-for-profit literary press, which has been based in Fort Lee, N.J., since its inception in 2000. She has coordinated events such as poetry readings, book parties and fundraising events, including statewide community outreach programs for CavanKerry Press. Danny Shot teaches English at Brooklyn Tech High School. He co-founded Long Shot Magazine with Eliot Katz in the early 1980s. He has performed at, as well as coordinated, events throughout the region.

20130714 Upper Gallery Opening

Upper Gallery Opening: “Clubhouse Requiem” by Adam Rodriguez

July 14, 2013 • 2-5pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Graphic designer and artist Adam Rodriguez is the talent behind the popular t-shirt designs of the Hoboken Motorcycle Club. Though he’s not a member, he admires their spirit and renders the club’s camaraderie and shared values in a group portrait, “Clubhouse Requiem,” that could be a modern take on Rembrandt’s “Night Watch.” Click here to learn more.

Free

20130224 – On the Waterfront-DVD Release

On the Waterfront New DVD Boxed Set Release Party

February 24, 2013 • 4pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Fans of the movie On the Waterfront, which was filmed almost entirely on location in Hoboken some 60 years ago, won’t want to miss a special event at the Museum: a launch party for a new DVD/Blu-Ray boxed set with special features. The Criterion Collection is releasing a newly restored version of the movie, packaged with new extras, such as interviews with Hollywood legends, film critics and scholars, and people involved in the filming, including local boy Tom Hanley.

Tom Hanley, who grew up to become a longshoreman, and Dr. James Fisher, Fordham professor and author of the book On the Irish Waterfront, will join us at this special DVD launch party. Hanley played the young kid, Tommy, who idolizes Marlon Brando’s boxer-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy, at least until Malloy testifies against the longshoreman’s union for the waterfront corruption commission. Early in the film, he wears the insignia of Malloy’s old gang and learns how to tend homing pigeons from him, but when he learns of his hero’s betrayal of the long-standing code against squealing, his line, “a pigeon for a pigeon,” stings Malloy. Hanley himself grew up to become a longshoreman in real life, rising in the union ranks to the position of shop steward.

The movie, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg, swept eight Oscars in 1954, including best picture, director, actor, supporting actress, cinematography and screenplay. The story was inspired by journalistic accounts of the waterfront commission investigating corruption in the unions that controlled the entire New York port system.

20120421 – City of Hoboken Green Fair

City of Hoboken Green Fair

April 21, 2012 • 11am-5pm

Location: Pier A Park

Visit the Museum’s booth and sign up for a bicycle tour of Hoboken historical sites. We’ll also have items from our shop if you’re shopping for a unique Hoboken-themed gift: t-shirts, mugs, books and prints.

Click here for more information.

Free

20130505 Upper Gallery Opening

Upper Gallery Opening: “A Child’s Innocence,” Watercolors by Ben Roman

May 5, 2013 • 2-5pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

An art teacher at a local school, Ben Roman captures the essence of childhood in meticulously detailed watercolor portraits of children. Meet the artist at the free opening reception. He returns Sunday, June 9, to give an artist talk. Click here to learn more.

Free

20160403 Baseball season opener

Vintage Baseball Season Opens

Vintage Baseball Team Hoboken Nine Season Opens

April 3, 2016, 4 pm

Location: Dobbelaar Field, Stevens Institute of Technology

One of Hoboken’s “100 Firsts” is hosting the first officially recorded, organized “base ball” game played under Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.’s rules, on June 19, 1846. According to historical records, the New York Nine defeated Cartwright’s Knickerbockers, 23 to 1, in four innings at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields, which were located near the Hudson River, about where the former Maxwell House Plant was located.

Hoboken’s own vintage baseball team, the Hoboken Nine, will scrimmage in a season-opening exposition game, played by mid-1800s rules in vintage-style uniforms. Come out and see baseball as it was originally played in Hoboken. All ages are welcome. Admission is free. Grownup fans are usually invited to celebrate afterwards at the Shannon Lounge — Huzzah!

Click here to find out more about the Hoboken Nine and see their 2016 schedule.

20160618 Baseball commemoration

Historic Baseball Game

1846 Hoboken Base Ball Game Re-enactment

June 18, 2016 • 12:00pm

Location: Stevens Institute of Technology, Dobbelaar Field.

One of Hoboken’s “100 Firsts” is hosting the first officially recorded, organized “base ball” game played under Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.’s rules, on June 19, 1846. According to historical records, the New York Nine defeated Cartwright’s Knickerbockers, 23 to 1, in four innings at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields, which were located near the Hudson River, at about 11th Street.

The Museum will commemorate the event again this year with a re-creation of a mid-19th century game, on Saturday, June 18, at 12 p.m., on the Dobbelaar Baseball Diamond at Stevens Institute of Technology. The Hoboken Nine and the Flemington Neshanock will play by Cartwright’s rules for a competitive match. The public is invited to come root, root, root for the home team! All ages are welcome. Admission is free.

For more classic baseball, see the full Hoboken Nine Schedule.

20160629 Binghamton

Save the Binghamton

PUBLIC NOTICE

FERRYBOAT BINGHAMTON REMOVAL FOR PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION

Before June 29, 2016

Location: Edgewater, NJ

NOEL LOVE GROSS, TRUSTEE OF TRUST B UNDER ARTICLE IIIB OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF NELSON G. GROSS is seeking interested qualified parties to enter into an agreement to remove the ferryboat Binghamton from its current site, in Edgewater New Jersey, for the purpose of preservation and restoration.

The ferryboat Binghamton is a National Register structure which was constructed from 1904-1905. This ferryboat was one of six steam-powered screw-propeller, double-ended ferryboats built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock for the Hoboken Ferryboat Company.

The ferryboat served from 1905-1967 between Hoboken and Manhattan before being sold and turned into a restaurant in 1975, known as Binghamton’s. The ferryboat Binghamton was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. She is the last extant steam-powered double-ended, double-screw Hudson River ferry. The ferryboat was damaged in Superstorm Sandy in October of 2012 and remains moored in the Borough of Edgewater, New Jersey. NOEL LOVE GROSS, TRUSTEE OF TRUST B UNDER ARTICLE IIIB OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF NELSON G. GROSS has plans to redevelop the site after the removal of the vessel.

While the ferryboat is a National Register site, the condition of the vessel is poor. After the ferryboat was moved to her present location in 1975, the 500-ton steam boilers were removed and 640 tons of concrete were poured into the hull as ballast. A major engineering effort will be required for the removal and preservation of the ferryboat. Only qualified interested parties which can demonstrate the ability to undertake the removal and preservation will be considered.

This Public Notice will expire after 90 days, on June 29th, 2016. Interested parties must by that date enter into a written agreement for the removal of the vessel from the site for the purposes of preservation. Specific logistics and timeline for removal are to be determined at a later date through consultation between the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office and NOEL LOVE GROSS, TRUSTEE OF TRUST B UNDER ARTICLE IIIB OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF NELSON G. GROSS.

Interested parties should email FerryboatBinghamton@gmail.com to receive more information.

20160703 – Last Day-Sinatra

Last Day of “Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Voice, the Fans” Exhibit

July 3, 2016 • 12:00–5:00pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Please note: The Museum will be closed through July 30 for a change of exhibitions.

Museum will reopen on July 31

20120411 Spring Jazz

Spring Jazz Series: First Wednesdays

April 11, 2012 • 7:00pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Jazz combo with trombonist Robert Edwards and vocalist Vanessa Perea performed American standards.

Admission $7/$5 for members. Includes light refreshments.

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