Speaker-Professor Kara Schlichting, Ph.D.

Increasing accessibility to New York City’s hinterland inspired urban and suburban

residents to search for fresh air and open spaces on Long Island in the 1920s. In response, a cohort of planning professionals across regional park commissions and conferences self-consciously circulated a planning approach that linked leisure to regional planning. Join, Kara Murphy Schlichting, Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY and author of New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore, on her talk about Robert Moses’s early career as a part of this work, focusing on his 1920s and 1930s park work on Long Island and in New York City.

Fee: $10; $8 seniors. Members free. Check is to be payable to the Friends of Rock Hall. Space

limited. Reservations required.