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Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:55:04 -0500

We went to the Public Theater for the closing night of Goddess, which I describe as a high energy black folk opera featuring great singing and dancing. The audience was ecstatic! This great old Romanesque building originally housed John Jacob Astor's library, the first significant collection freely available to the public. The collection was a founding segment of the New York Public Library and the building eventually was made into a theater and pub.