(HOBOKEN, NJ) -- The Hoboken Historical Museum and Poet-in-Residence Danny Shot will host Memory Gardens – A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg on Sunday, March 3 at the Hoboken Historical Museum. The event is free and will also be livestreamed on the Hoboken Historical Museum's YouTube channel and Facebook page. The event begins at 4:00pm.
The current exhibition at the Hoboken Historical Museum features the photographs of Benedict J. Fernandez, who chronicled the Hoboken Shipyards, the Civil Rights Movement, 60s anti-war protests, as well as the iconic Allen Ginsberg Pot is Fun picture taken at a marijuana legalization protest.
Four poets, Lee Ann Brown, Eliot Katz, Sharon Mesmer, and Bob Rosenthal, who are among the living people who knew Allen best will share memories, as well as their own work.
Click here to watch event on the Museum's YouTube Channel or click here for their Facebook event page.
The Hoboken Historical Museum is located at 1301 Hudson Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. The museum (est. 1986) collects and displays artifacts in themed exhibitions on Hoboken history and offers educational programs, lectures, tours and hosts films and plays. The museum is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Recent exhibits have included a focus on Hoboken’s relationship with the Hudson River and its role as a sweets producer. Other exhibits included shipping history, an anniversary of the movie “On the Waterfront,” the city’s contributions to the world of music, and its struggle and revival through the 1970s. The upper gallery space features six local artists’ work per year.
