ILLUSTRATED TALKS

History can be fun when it is enlivened with stories about the people who made it. Joyce Gold's delightful talks are crammed with anecdotes and illustrated with dozens of slides. In just an hour you can transcend time and space.

Talks/slide shows are attractive as spousal activities for corporate meetings, fund raisers for non-profit organizations, orientation programs for colleges, and part of the training curriculum for hotel desk personnel. They can be customized, as well, to address the special interests of any given group.

WE THE PEOPLE
From the earliest days, hard-working, skilled and unskilled immigrants brought New York energy, intelligence and a continually changing mix of cultures.
 

NATURAL NEW YORK
NY's place in history owes a debt to the physical characteristics of the place now seen as a city of glass and concrete. What do the natural origins of Manhattan have to do with the city today?
 

WALL STREET: A COLONIAL MELTING POT WITH HEARTY DUTCH FLAVOR OLD NEW AMSTERDAM
A frontier town where people of the world came to buy low and sell high. The Wall Street area boasts many of Manhattan's most famous historic sites.
 

GREAT BUILDINGS OF MANHATTAN
Discover how historical structures embody the social, political, and technological movements of their times.
 
 

CENTRAL PARK—
THE BIG BACK YARD OF THE CITY
Origins and design of this much-loved refuge, the city's gift to the people.
 
 
 

GREENWICH VILLAGE
The Village is one of New York's earliest landmarked communities. On quirky angled streets lie 1920s speakeasies, literary hang-outs, European-style coffeehouses, Off-Broadway theatres — the quintessential American Bohemia.
 

TWENTIETH CENTURY MANHATTAN
From the time of J P Morgan and the Easter Parade through the Roaring 20s, Depression Years, and Post-WW II period, Manhattan grew to be today's cultural, financial, and creative mecca of international stature.
 

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