junebug

Last week Weeksville staff  met with wonderful colleagues from in NOLA’s Junebug Theater . located in the Historical Faubourg Treme area.  Excited to follow their new developments and transformations!  Coincidently, the creators of The Wire are working on a showing featuring this Historic African American area!

Street Scenes

Invincible Cities captures more than three decades of changing streetscapes in Harlem, NY, Richmond, CA, and Camden, NJ. Trace shifting communities via photographs shot from the same vantage point throughout recent history.

http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/intro.html

VINTAGE HIGH-TEK

Steam Punk 2.0!

Secret Garden

Public Programs Curator Jennifer Steverson, and Producer Shawn Peters of Rebel Soul are gearing up for another great summer at Weeksville. The Summer Salon Concert Series has been revamped and renamed, The Garden Party. Lots of exciting artist are appearing in a new locale at Weeksville Heritage Center. Get a glimpse of some of the scenes planning.

Rewind to the Present

Full text of an 1893 speech by Frederick Douglass on Haiti. Some amazingly visionary passages