ART MAY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Posted on | May 6, 2010 | Comments Off
| May 5, 2010 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The Story of a Book: Changing Jersey City: A History in Photographs
Please join the New York Archivists Round Table as we venture across the Hudson to the beautiful and historic Jersey City Free Public Library. We will be introduced to the holdings of the New Jersey Room, and learn how two dedicated authors collaborated on a pictorial history of the Garden State’s second largest city.
Co-authors Leon Yost and Cynthia Harris will discuss how the concept of their book, Changing Jersey City: A History in Photographs, evolved over a three year period. Initially planning a simple collection of then and now views, they switched their approach to the evolution – sometimes including the rise, fall, and rebirth – of various sites and institutions intermingled with then and now views. Dividing their task based upon their strongest points of knowledge, Leon worked from the architectural viewpoint in the first three chapters while Cynthia addressed the last three chapters giving glimpses into the people who made up the city through the years. They will conduct a slide presentation highlighting some of the fascinating, sometimes quirky items in the book.
Leon Yost is a professional documentary photographer who has worked as a location scout for the BBC and is published in Time-Life Books, American Photo, The New York Times, and many other publications. A Jersey City resident for 36 years, he has methodically photographed its changing landscape using a kind of reverse archeology by locating and re-photographing historically documented scenes.
Jersey City-born Cynthia Harris was a middle school teacher in her hometown for 25 years. After suffering a substantial hearing loss she set her sights upon a new career in which she merged her hobby of collecting Hudson County postcards with the profession of librarianship and now manages the archival collection of Hudson County’s history housed in the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library.
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Place: Jersey City Free Public Library (Main Library), 472 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City
Time: 5:45 – 6:30 pm Social; 6:30 – 7:45 pm Program
Subway Directions: The library is accessible via the Grove Street station of the PATH train, a quick trip from Manhattan. Directions will accompany RSVP confirmation.
Fee: FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and staff of the Jersey City Free Public Library. $6 admission for all others.
RSVP: To Jennifer Anna by Friday, April 30, 2010 at veep@nycarchivists.org. Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Let us know if this is your first meeting or if you are a new ART member. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York expresses its gratitude to the Jersey City Free Public Library for making this event possible.
