Virtual Parlor Chat with Matthew Spady & Avi Gitler, Audubon Mural Project
NBC New York-12.8.2020 Historic Houses slavery.mp4
The Overlook String Quartet playing Juba at Morris-Jumel Mansion
Artist Andrea Arroyo creating CoVIDA
MJM Virtual Parlor Chat: A Conversation with Artist Andrea Arroyo
MJM Virtual Parlor Chat: "Historic House Museums and the Paranormal--A Conversation with Historic Richmond Town and the Merchant's House
MJM Virtual Parlor Chat: "Historic House Museums and the Paranormal--A Conversation with Historic Richmond Town and the Merchant's House
Virtual Parlor Chat: Famous Furniture and Duncan Phyfe
TOMORROW, 9/7: Join us outside of #MorrisJumelMansion at 4 pm. for a special #LaborDay concert by #TheOverlook!
Formed in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, The Overlook is a string quartet dedicated to performing concert music in Upper Manhattan by Black composers. They frequently collaborate with living Black composers and songwriters, and seek out wrongfully-overlooked music to add to their growing repertoire. Prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, the players (violinists Monica Davis and Adda Kridler, violist Angela Pickett and cellist Laura Metcalf) enjoyed busy performance schedules both on tour and with groups such as award-winning string quintet Sybarite5 and in the orchestras of top Broadway musicals including Hamilton, Beetlejuice and Come From Away. Event capacity will be limited to 20 guests and audience members are encouraged to bring their own seating/picnic blankets for the concert.
No registration is required. Please drop-in and join us for this special Labor Day performance!
#free #livemusic #classicalmusic #outdoors #WashingtonHeights #RogerMorrisPark #sociallydistanced
Facebook LIVE Storytime with Eliza Jumel: Two Friends by Dean Robbins
Eliza Jumel, a puppet, reads the book Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Dean Robbins, with illustrations by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko at the Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Learn more about this book by visiting the author's page: http://deanrobbins.net/two-friends-su...
See the "Let's Have Tea" statue which inspired the author to write this book:
http://www.douglasstour.com/tour/susa...
28th Annual Virtual Jazz at the Mansion Introduction by Shiloh Holley, Director, Morris-Jumel Mansion
Morris-Jumel Mansion's Executive Director, Shiloh Holley welcomes everyone to the 28th Annual Virtual Jazz at the Mansion concert on August 22 and 23, from 2:30 pm. until 5:30 pm. Eastern.
Morris-Jumel Mansion is proud to co-host this concert in partnership with jazz pianist Marjorie Eliot, Parlor Entertainment Harlem, and with the Jazz Foundation of America. This year, due to the pandemic, the performances will be livestreamed on Facebook from Ms. Eliot's parlor on the Parlor Entertainment Harlem and Morris-Jumel pages.
Please log on to Facebook to livestream this event at 2:30 pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/319643976060870/
Tonight's Virtual Parlor Chat Live!
Live now - Our Virtual Parlor Chat “How the Mosquito Changed the Course of the American Revolution” with Professor Tim Winegard, Colorado Mesa University
“Mindful Minutes”: The Overlook plays Voodoo Dolls by Jessie Montgomery
GatherNYC presents the online debut of The Overlook.
Formed in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, The Overlook is a string quartet dedicated to performing concert music by Black composers. They can be found playing open-air concerts for their neighbors in upper Manhattan, collaborating with living Black composers and songwriters, and seeking out more wrongfully overlooked music to add to their growing repertoire. Prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, the players (violinists Monica Davis and Adda Kridler, violist Angela Pickett and cellist Laura Metcalf) enjoyed busy performance schedules both on tour with groups such as award-winning string quintet Sybarite5 and in the orchestras of top Broadway musicals including Hamilton, Beetlejuice and Come From Away.
For their "Mindful Minutes" performance, the quartet plays Voodoo Dolls by Jessie Montgomery, an energetic work influenced by African drumming patterns and lyrical chant motives.
If you are enjoying "Mindful Minutes" and wish to support our artists, whose live performance schedules will be compromised for some time to come, please consider a tax-deductible donation of any amount at the link below. We are deeply grateful to those who have already helped keep our industry afloat during this challenging time.
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/gathernyc
Architecture as Identity: Harlem's Colonial-Inspired Style
Architecture as Identity: Harlem's Colonial-Inspired Style
The Harlem Renaissance Virtual Salon continues on Sunday, August 9th at 4:00pm with our cultural partner, Morris Jumel Mansion presenting Architecture as Identity: Harlem's Colonial-Inspired Style with John Reddick and co-panelists.
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, Morris-Jumel Mansion in partnership with Harlem One Stop and the Harlem Cultural Collaborative present Harlem Renaissance 100 Virtual Salon: - Architecture as Identity: Harlem's Colonial Inspired Style followed by a conversation with John Reddick and co-panelists.
Harlem's "Colonial"-inspired architecture served as a stage set and endorsement of a "modern" black presence. In this engaging lecture, architect and historian John Reddick explores the influence of colonial design in Harlem's early modern architecture from the 1920s through the 1940s. Reddick discusses how Harlem's early twentieth-century designs, like the Roger Morris Apartments, the Colonial Park & Pool, and Vertner Tandy's "Dark Tower," served as not only a backdrop to the Jazz Age, but as a tool for elevating class and status within the Black community. Learn about the historic legacy and socio-cultural context of these buildings which will be expanded upon in the panel discussion following the lecture.
#TBT Many people are unaware that #MJM has an historic connection with the #Northup family featured in the memoir, Twelve Years a Slave. Shortly after Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into #slavery, his wife Anne met Eliza Jumel in Saratoga and was hired to be her cook. For a brief period in the 1840s, Anne and her three children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo lived and worked onsite at the Mansion or nearby for Eliza's other relatives. Thanks to a @HumanitiesNY Vision Grant, #MorrisJumel is working with scholar David Fiske and others to uncover and share the stories of the Northups and other freed and enslaved African Americans connected with our #historichouse.
Learn more about the Northup Family story: http://ow.ly/baPt50AMmMR
#BlackHistory #womenshistory #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
The Mansion's namesakes, the Morris and Jumel families, are only a part of our story. This spring, MJM was awarded a Humanities New York Vision Grant to recenter the Mansion's historical narrative to include the voices of Black Americans and others who have been marginalized in the past.
We are excited to embark on this project in the Fall and look forward to sharing more stories from the Mansion's history, including the experiences of enslaved people who worked for the Morris family; William Lee who was George Washington's enslaved valet; and freed woman, Anne Northup, who worked as Eliza Jumel's cook as she fought to repatriate her husband, Solomon, from bondage. Solomon's harrowing story is retold in his memoir, "Twelve Years a Slave."
We are committed to moving forward on this important journey with you as we seek to convert this understanding into action and understand how our shared histories inform our present. We are grateful for project support through a Humanities New York Vision Grant.
Image: "Arrival Home, and the first meeting with his wife and children," Twelve Years a Slave or Solomon Northup, 1853.
#MorrisJumelMansion #BlackHistory #nyhistory #history #womenshistory #slavery #research #knowtheirnames #twitterstorians #HumanitiesNY Historic House Trust of New York City #AmericanHistory #WashingtonHeights #WilliamLee #GeorgeWashington #ElizaJumel #AnneNorthup #SolomonNorthup #TwelveYearsASlave
Library of Congress 1902 film clip, "Parade of horses on the Speedway."
#TriviaTuesday
Today, we've got a question for you cinephiles--How is #MorrisJumel connected to movie history? Was it:
a) The site where the first motion picture was filmed?
b) Visited by the silent screen actor Charlie Chaplin?
c) The prospective site for Thomas Edison's motion picture studios?
d) The intended venue for Louis Le Prince's demo of his moving picture camera?
Please share your answer below in the comments. The answer will be revealed this afternoon.
Film clip courtesy of the Library of Congress. http://ow.ly/JWkb50zPNM8
@hhtnyc #MorrisJumel #filmindustry #moviehistory #MuseumFromHome #popularculture #historichouses
Film Summary from LOC.gov: The film is of the third annual parade of the Road Drivers Association of New York. A procession of fine horses and fashionable carriages move along the Harlem River Speedway, in the Highbridge section of northern Manhattan. The view is from the Manhattan side of the river looking north. On the right is the Harlem River and on the opposite bank, the Bronx. Prominent in the background is the High Bridge at 175th Street. Beyond the High Bridge is the Washington Bridge at 181st Street. The "Speedway" was opened in 1898 exclusively for the running of horses and light carriages and was a popular destination for racing.
Contributor Names
Bonine, R. (Robert K.), camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Virtual Parlor Chat: The Real Mary Morris
We're live with our first Virtual Chat! Learn about the "Real" Mary Morris!
Can’t think of a better was to start off #museumweek2020 than reposting MJM’s friend and neighbor, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heart-felt message of gratitude to the staff of @NYPHospital! We couldn’t have said it better - the heroes on the frontlines of #coronavirus didn’t sign up for this battle, yet they show up, and keep fighting every day. @NYPHospital has supported our community and museum programming through their CHALK initiative in the past, and we feel so grateful to be in the capable hands of these medical warriors during this present COVID-19 crisis.
Heroes don’t fly, or wear capes, but they do SHOW UP. We are so grateful to every hero who has shown up to help us all through this crisis, especially @NYPHospital, and all of the healthcare workers in our MJM family, and community. We see you, and we thank you.
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#HeroesMW #unsungheroes #heroesdontwearcapes #whosyourhero #museumweek #museumweek2020 #museumsforculture #museumsfromhome #covid19 #coronavirus #stayhome #shelterinplace #Morrisjumelmansion #morrisjumel #mjm #historichouse #hhtnyc #repost @nyphospital #linmanuelmiranda #intheheights #nypheroes #washingtonheights
This weekend, help the schools in our communities when their doors reopen and for the next 10 years by responding to the #2020Census now. It's easy to do while social distancing! You can answer online, by phone, or by mail. Visit 2020Census.gov #ShapeYourFuture
@USCensusBureau No matter where you call home, the #2020Census is your chance to shape the future of your community and your answers are kept confidential. Complete the census today!
2020Census.gov #ShapeYourFuture
#MuseumMomentofZen Today marks the 235th birthday of famous artist & naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851). Like Eliza Jumel's husband Stephen, #Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (Haiti) & he spent the last years of his life living close to the #Mansion in #NorthernManhattan. He is best known for creating The Birds of America, a record of 1,065 birds. Enjoy the different types of bird calls in this video from the #colonial #garden. If you listen closely, you can also hear another type of "call" for humans. What does this second "call" communicate to you? #MuseumFromHome #birds #nature #morrisjumel #nycparks
