2. Welcome
Deborah Schwartz, BHS President
Julie Golia, SAFA Co-Director
Robin M. Katz, SAFA Co-Director
Lauren Onifer, Fellowship Librarian
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3. Welcome
Elizabeth Peralta, SAFA Fellow
Ava Quigley, SAFA Fellow
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4. Furman and the
Built Environment of Brooklyn
Nicole Molinelli, St. Francis College
Michael Tutko, New York City College of Technology
Alia Kasem, St. Francis College
Yuliya Bas, New York City College of Technology
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5. Nicole Molinelli
“A Day in the Life of Gabriel Furman:
A Walking Tour”
St. Francis College
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6. Michael Tutko
“Furman’s Lens on Brooklyn”
New York City College of Technology
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9. Alia Kasem
“Soul of Brooklyn”
St. Francis College
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10. Yuliya Bas
“A Study in Dutch Brooklyn”
New York City College of Technology
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21. Furman and the political
development of the US
Alice Albers, St. Francis College
Hannah Brown, St. Francis College
Brian Ballie, New York City College of Technology
Elizabeth Peralta, St. Francis College
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22. Alice Albers
“The Journals: The Irish and Germans”
St. Francis College
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26. Hannah Brown
“The Mormons as Recorded by Gabriel Furman”
St. Francis College
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34. Brian Ballie
“Financial Panic Through the Eyes of
Gabriel Furman”
New York City College of Technology
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46. Furman’s Whimsical Side
Jacqueline Camacho, St. Francis College
Shawn Brumell, New York City College of Technology
Ava Quigley, New York City College of Technology
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47. Jacqueline Camacho
“Through My Eyes: A Modern Interpretation of
Early American Poems”
St. Francis College
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49. 7/11/13
“The literature of the New World,
at that time (1830) stood very low in the
estimation of Americans in general.”
- - William Gowans
Gowans, William, and The Faust Club of Brooklyn. “Two Biographical Sketches of
Gabriel Furman.” Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries. Transcribed by Paul Royster.
Paper 23 (1865): accessed July 2013, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/23
51. 7/11/13
“Talk not to me of the beauties of the ballroom.
The pleasures of the billiard table- or card party.
I am an admirer of Nature in her roughest mood.
It fills my soul with a terrified pleasure to hear
the reverberating of the crashing thunder amid
the chasms of the rock.”
- - Gabriel Furman
Remarks, November 6, 1816, volume 2, page 11-12; Gabriel Furman Papers, ARC. 190, box
1, folder 1; Brooklyn Historical Society
56. Shawn Brumell
“Gabriel Furman’s Myths of the Sea”
New York City College of Technology
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63. Ava Quigley
“A Song for Gabriel”
New York City College of Technology
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65. Thank You
Hannah Brown,
SAFA Fellow
http://safa.brooklynhistory.org/fellowship2013
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