NYC Parks has coordinated a few history-focused events for Queens History Weekend -- Native American, colonial and 19th-century history. Call it a warm-up for December's celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, the forerunner of religious freedom in the U.S. Constitution. All the events are free and led by the NYC Urban Park Rangers.
Top pick is The Roots of Our Rights, exploring historic Flushing. Anticipate seeing the Quaker meeting house and the Bowne House, both important steps in the story of the Flushing Remonstrance. I'd pair the tour with dim sum.
NYC Park event details.- The Roots of Our Rights
- November 24, 2007 - 10 a.m.
- Daniel Carter Beard Square, Main St & Northern Blvd, Flushing
- Native American History - Matinecock
- November 23, 2007 - 1 p.m.
- Forest Park Visitor Center (Woodhaven Blvd & Forest Park Dr)
- There's a Lot in Fort Totten - Civil War History of Fort
- November 24 & 25, 2007 - 2 p.m.
- Fort Totten Park Ranger Station (Enter park at fort entrance, north of intersection of 212th St & Cross Island Pkwy)
- The Man of the Manor
- November 25, 2007 - 1 p.m.
- King Manor Museum, 150th St & Jamaica Ave
- Tour the home of Rufus King, member of the Continental Congress, framer and signer of the Constitution - entrance fee waived
Update - There's chance to see a piece of Queens and world 20th-century history unfold next week on local TV. The UN vote that created the state of Israel in 1947 was cast at the UN's temporary headquarters in Flushing Meadows Park, in what is now the park's ice skating rink. The rare footage from November 29, 1947 will be shown on the 60th anniversary of the vote at a Kew Garden Hills synagogue and also on TV, according to the NY Daily News:
"Queens Public Television is airing the excerpt on Time Warner Cable Channel 34 and RCN Channel 82 at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 26, 7 p.m. on Nov. 27, 8 p.m. on Nov. 28 and 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 29."Photo (c) John Roleke - King Manor House
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