Hart Island (Potter's Field) tour June 15 with bus to CNYSH
A tour of historic Hart Island (including Potter's Field), the Bronx, will be
conducted Thursday, June 15, without charge, by the NY Correction History
Society (NYCHS), through the good offices of the NYC Department of Correction
(NYC DOC) and in conjunction with the June 15-17 Conference on New York State
History. E-mail the NYCHS webmaster for more information and to indicate
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Before sending that e-mail, please read the information below and visit the
June 15 Hart Island tour page at:
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/tourhart2a.html
The morning Hart Island tour will conclude during the noon hour so state
history conference participants taking the tour may attend the conference's
registration and first session starting later that afternoon on Fordham
University's nearby Bronx Rose Hill campus.
While the tour is being arranged in conjunction with the June 15-17
Conference on New York State History, registering for the conference is not a
requirement for taking part in the tour that is offered without charge. Those
on the tour bus return trip who will not be participating in the conference
are welcome to remain on the bus at the Fordham Bronx campus stop and will be
driven back to NYC DOC's HQ in Manhattan.
The June 15 Hart Island tour is just the latest in a series of activities set
in motion by the New York Correction History Society initiative that seeks to
recover, preserve and promote correction history in New York with the help
and participation of the academic community. Former NYC Correction and
Probation Commissioner Michael P. Jacobson, now a professor with John Jay
College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, is president of the
New York Correction History Society; the current NYC Correction Commissioner,
Bernard B. Kerik, its board chairman.
The Conference on New York State History is an annual meeting, organized by
an informal group of academic and public historians and held at different
locations around the state. More than four decades after its initial
incarnation, the conference continues to serve as a forum for new historical
scholarship and for the discussion of related issues open to all in the New
York historical community.
The conference is largely self-sustaining but relies on the institutional
support of the New York State Museum through its Colonial Albany Social
History Project and the New York State Museum Institute for basic
administrative services. Cornell University, the New York State Historical
Association, and the New York State Archives are the other institutional
sponsors.
For information about the conference, contact Stefan Bielinski, 3093 Cultural
Education Center, Albany 12230; (518) 474-6917; or at
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The June 15-17 conference 2000 Program and a printable Registration Form are
available on the Conference on New York State History web site at
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/cnysh
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Thomas McCarthy
general secretary,
New York Correction History Society
http://www.correctionhistory.org
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director of historical services
New York City Department of Correction
Office of Public Information
60 Hudson Street, Room 608
New York, NY 10013
212 266 1016
212 266-1597 fax
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