History and service to older adults are key themes at H&H benefit bash
Brooklyn Eagle and sister papers, with 350 years of publishing, cited by Heights and Hills.
PIERREPONT STREET—”Bash” seems inappropriate, but a celebration it will be. Lots of history, humor and the inspirational services to older adults and their caregivers will be the themes of a May 15 event hosted at the venerable Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St. Ticket purchasers and supporters will be helping Heights and Hills, a remarkable service agency that takes care of more than 3,500 older adults and their care-givers in 19 Brooklyn neighborhoods.
The evening will honor the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and her five affiliate sister publications, which include the Brooklyn Heights Press (founded 1937) and the Brooklyn Record (founded 1938). The Eagle group includes the Brooklyn Daily Bulletin that began publishing five days a week in 1955 and merged with the revived Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1996. Taken collectively, the group of five weeklies and one daily have been publishing continuously for more than 350 years. Also honored May 15 will be four older adults who work at the Eagle group, whose combined ages may well exceed 350 years!