Flatbush + Main: Memories of Old Williamsburgh
Update: 2025-10-17
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This episode was originally published on <time class="datetime" datetime="2017-12-05T17:00:42 +00:00 ">December 5, 2017.</time>
In Episode 20 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia use one seemingly inconsequential manuscript collection to explore themes of memory and history-making over many generations. In 1915, Brooklynite Francis Morrell wrote a small tract called "Recollections of Old Williamsburgh." This self-published work of genealogy reminds us that historical writing tells us just as much about the time that it was written as about the time period it purports to study.
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