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Good morning, Brooklyn, Wednesday, April 14.

April 14, 1775 was the founding date of the first American Abolition Society. So what took the rest of us so long to figure things out? It was in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, and the name was quite long: The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held In Bondage. Still functioning as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, it was honored to have Benjamin Franklin as president sometime after 1785. The Society asked Franklin to bring the matter of slavery to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Franklin petitioned the US Congress in 1790 to ban slavery. Again, what took the rest of us so long…

LOOK IT UP – The first dictionary of American English was published on this day in 1828. Noah Webster called his first edition the AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

WHAT WAS THE NAME of the play Abraham Lincoln was watching on this day in 1865, when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.?  It was OUR AMERICAN COUSIN, a farce written by Englishman Tom Taylor. The main character was an awkward, boorish American who is reviled by his aristocratic British cousins when he travels there to claim an estate. Actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln, was not acting in the play, but he leapt onto the stage after  shooting the President and shouted “Sic Semper Tyrannis [Ever thus to tyrants]… the South is avenged.” Brooklyn played a role in Lincoln’s life before he was elected President, as he admired Henry Ward Beecher and attended Plymouth Church, an event marked by a plaque on the pew he occupied.

APRIL 14, 2000  IS BELIEVED to be the birthdate of Eddie the Eagle, our beloved, benevolent, non-predatorial mascot. Click here to see his recent tour of Greenpoint with Congresswoman Carol Maloney.

BIRTHDAY OF A MIRACLE WORKER — Anne Sullivan was born on this day in 1866. Sullivan became the teacher, then governess then companion to HELEN KELLER. Despite being blind and deaf from age of 19 months, Keller became one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan created the breakthrough in communication that led to the inspiring 1962 movie, THE MIRACLE WORKER starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.  BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND, founded in 1893, changed its name in 1985 to Helen Keller Services, after many years of working closely with organizations bearing Helen Keller’s name.

WE HAVE ALL SEEN the first pitch tossed from the mound by a non-athlete in ceremonial season openers. Today, April 14, it happened for the first time in 1910 when President William Howard Taft tossed the first pitch in an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. (Washington won 3-0).

Read APRIL  14 — ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY for more history.

 

Brooklyn Bird Watch

Following up on your Bird coverage — as a former resident of Brooklyn now living in Florida, and a bird lover, I was pleased to see the excellent photo of the Northern Cardinal by Heather Wolf featured in the Brooklyn Eagle’s “BirdWatch” series.

I remember a few years ago a co-worker came in to work one day very excited about a bird she had seen. She had already told me about her grandfather in Albania who was a serious bird lover, and her fond memories from childhood of her grandparents’ home being filled with the sounds of Albanian goldfinches and canaries.

She knew I liked photographing birds, and she said: “I saw this bird in the park yesterday, I’ve never seen one like that, it was so beautiful; it was completely bright red all over.”  I smiled and told her it was the male cardinal.

A few months later, after seeing a red male cardinal fly through the courtyard where I live, I figured there might be Cardinals living nearby. I created a bird feeder, and soon,  as I had hoped, a pair of cardinals appeared. Neither the male nor female cardinal would visit the feeder placed up on the fence, but would instead, as your Eagle notes describe, stay close together and near the ground, very cautiously and quietly approaching the birdseed I had spread over the concrete. What a treat!

Photo by Joseph Palmer

Click here to read this week’s story from Brooklyn Dogs titled, “A Dog Named Schooner.”

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