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Alf Dyrland, Captain of the MARY A. WHALEN, 1958-1978

Alf Dyrland, Captain of the MARY A. WHALEN, 1958-1978

Nov 09, 2018 alf dyrland,Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn daily eagle,brooklyn history,columbia waterfront,mary a. whalen,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterstories

Alf Dyrland Collection By The Red Hook WaterStories team Alf Dyrland was Captain of the MARY A. WHALEN from her rechristening in 1958 until 1978 when he retired. He was her first captain; she was his last boat. Alf loved the MARY deeply. As he lay dying in 1996, what he said out loud revealed […]

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Winter Life on Canal Boats, 1915

Jul 16, 2018 Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn daily eagle,brooklyn history,brooklyn spar company,columbia waterfront,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterstories

By The Red Hook WaterStories team Residents of Erie Basin Celebrate the Holidays in Much the Same Fashion as Folk Ashore. Near Christmas time, 1915, a female reporter and an illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, visited a few of the many canal boats and barges moored for the winter in Erie Basin “in search […]

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Title Fight: Louis Heineman vs. William Beard

May 11, 2018 Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn daily eagle,brooklyn history,brooklyn spar company,columbia waterfront,louis heineman,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,title fight,waterstories,William Beard

By The Red Hook WaterStories team “No man ever, perhaps, got so much the best of old Beard as did Louis Heineman, the housemover of the Twelfth ward.” (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 19, 1891) When Louis Heineman died in 1904, he was reportedly 104 years old, and likely the oldest man in Red Hook […]

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Virtual Reality in Brooklyn.

Sep 15, 2017 augmented reality,brooklyn,brooklyn activites,brooklyn daily eagle,brooklyn events,brooklyn expo center,brooklyn tech,brooklyn technonolgy,virtual reality,worlds fair nano

Anyone in the tech industry or interested in tech know that VR/AR, virtual reality/augmented reality, is developing and improving very quickly. The future is here! This weekend, September 16th and 17th, VR will be the highlight at the the Worlds Fair Nano being held at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. So, aside from hosting […]

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