DRAWN IN SMOKE
A set of 160 drawings, smoke and ink on paper, sheet size: 11 7/8 x 8 inches; image size: 4 x 4 inches; Each inscribed in ink (names sourced from the Cornell University Archive list); Inspired by the...
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View Article“My Father’s Hands” by Herbert J. Kramer
This is a short piece written by my father, Herbert J. Kramer, about his father, Charles P. Kramer, who was a first, if not the first, responder to the fire, and who rescued women from the roof and...
View Article“The Fire That Ignited a Movement of Women Workers”
Women's eNews hosted an event at Hunter College for International Women's Day in collaboration with the college's Gender and Women's Studies program and the League of Women Voters. We scheduled a...
View ArticleThe Flames of Change: LREI Fourth Grade Original Musical
“We are so proud of our students’ hard work,” said Fourth Grade Teacher and co-writer Dina Pomeranz. “They understood that they were being historical interpreters, and that through the reenactment of...
View ArticleSamuel Barfield-Triangle Fire Hero
These are articles and links about Samuel Barfield, NYU employee at the time of the Triangle Fire. As per the articles ,(the NY Times, Washington Afro-American 10/1954) written several years after the...
View ArticleCentennial Street Play Performance 2011
These images show portions of the play, as I performed it in 2011 in a continuous public street performance with a traveling audience at three historic locations. First I appear as Mama Saracino...
View Article2005 Postcard for “Soliloquy for a Seamstress”
This play has a history. In 2001, I wrote and performed a one-person play: “LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to the Fair Sex—Unfair Victims” comprised of three scenes. In scene two, an Italian immigrant...
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