The 5-11-19 Program and Topics
10:55AM
WHITMAN’S ‘CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY’
RECITE: ‘FLOOD-TIDE BELOW ME! I WATCH YOU FACE TO FACE;’
11:00AM
WHITMAN’S “CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY”
GERRY GIOIA BACKGROUND INSTRUMENTAL
RECITE: ‘FLOW ON, RIVER! FLOW WITH THE FLOOD-TIDE,’
11:05AM
A MESSAGE FROM AHMIR OJELEDA
WALT WHITMAN’S HARBOR & THE SANDY GROUND OYSTER HARVESTERS
THE CIVIL WAR & ABOLITIONISTS
11:10AM
A MESSAGE FROM ANNE WALDMAN
FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO ALLEN GINSBERG TO THE POETS OF THE FUTURE
LINES FROM ‘THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH’ & A HOMAGE TO WHITMAN
11:15AM
A MESSAGE FROM ANTHONY MAGISTRALE
LEAVES OF GRASS TO THE WATER IMAGERY OF THE FERRY
UNIVERSAL WATERS
YESTERDAY’S GREAT INVENTIONS & TODAY’S POLLUTION
11:25AM
WALT WHITMAN’S ‘CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY’
RECITE: ‘WE DESCEND UPON YOU AND ALL THINGS-‘
MESSAGES FROM NEW YORK HARBOR SCHOOL STUDENTS
11:30AM
LIVING IN THE SOLUTION
PETITION FOR THE BAY RIDGE PIER ECO DOCK
GUEST SPEAKER: SYLVIA D’ALESSANDRO, FOUNDER SANDY GROUND HISTORICAL
11:35AM
GUEST SPEAKER: AGATA PONIATOWSKI, EDUCATION OUTREACH COORDINATOR FOR BILLION OYSTER PROJECT
View Billion Oyster Photo Gallery
11:45AM
GUEST SPEAKER: GLEN GREENBERG GLASS TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION
11:50AM
NEW YORKERS NEED TO ASK QUESTIONS TO REALLY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
“I CAN SEE THE LIGHT” PERFORMED BY MARC HITTNER
11:55AM
“MISSISSIPPI CATFISH” BY GERRY GIOIA
12:00PM
SOUNDS OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE
NOAH, NOAH, AND N.O.A.A.
THE MELVILLE BUOY
A MESSAGE FROM PAUL SEISWERDA, FOUNDER OF GOTHAM WHALE & TOM PALADINO , CAPTAIN OF AMERICAN PRINCESS
SHINNECOCK NATION MOURNS THIS WEEK’S PASSING OF A HUMPBACK WHALE
THE N.O.A.A. DILEMMA
Learn about the Save the Whales Initiative
12:15PM
WHALE MIGRATION THROUGH THE NEW YORK BIGHT
FACETIME CALL FROM AMERICAN PRINCESS CRUISES
GOTHAM WHALE ‘MENHADEN PETITION’ SIGN UP
Learn about the North Atlantic Whale Calves
12:20PM
ROCKAWAY ARTIFICIAL REEF, NEW YORK BIGHT, THE HUDSON CANYON
A MESSAGE FROM NYS DEC MARINE SPECIALIST JESSIE HORNSTEIN
DEEPWATER CORAL, AND GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING
12:30PM
A MESSAGE FROM LIEUTENANT ANNA LAMACCHIO, UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
A.I.S. GLOBAL TRACKING
12:35PM
HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS & ISSUES
A MESSAGE FROM LIEUTENANT ANNA LOMACCHIO
A MESSAGE FROM GADI ZOFI
12:45PM
A RECOGNITION OF THOSE WHO WORK THE HARBOR TODAY’
A MESSAGE FROM NITZAN LEVY
A MESSAGE FROM JESSIE HORNSTEIN,
A MESSAGE FROM GADI ZOFI
12:50PM
‘THE HARBOR OF DREAMS’ FRANK BRAYNARD AND THE TALL SHIPS
12:55PM
‘NEW YORK FLEET WEEK’
A MESSAGE FROM LIEUTENANT ANNA LOMACCHIO
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018 FLEET WEEK AND A PREVIEW OF 2019
1:00PM
WHITMAN’S “CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY”
RECITE: ‘OTHERS WILL ENTER THE GATES OF THE FERRY’
GUEST SPEAKER: NO LAND, A MEDITATION ON WALT WHITMAN
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