Link to June 17 Papermag post, "Brooklyn, Post by Post. Brooklynology Remembers the Borough That Was".
Excerpt: Brooklyn Tuberculosis and Health Association beauty queen; the Brooklyn Bar Maids Local 101, and the Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Club. All of these very real, very remarkable things might not exist any more, but are alive on the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection's charming blog, Brooklynology.org.
The blog, which gets about 600 hits a day and is written by the department's staff, highlights some of the most interesting, amusing, and surprising things to be found in the archives. Books, manuscripts, photos, maps -- anything documenting Brooklyn's history -- make up the collection. (A quick scan over card catalogs in the Brooklyn Collection's reading room reveals subjects ranging from early Brooklyn merchants to transsexual group therapy.) Also included is the morgue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, published from 1841 to 1955.
So here's how Retiring Guy's brain makes connections.
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