On Wednesday, February 6th at 12:30pm Dr. Michael LaCombe, Associate Professor at Adelphi University and author of Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World, will take part in a lecture being hosted at New York University’s Fales Library.
The lecture is part of an ongoing series being hosted at NYU by the “Sylvester Manor Working Group,” which was formed to inventory and preserve 10,000 historic records donated by Manor owner Eben Ostby to the Fales archive.
Also part of the project, is an exhibit at the library titled “Sylvester Manor: Food and Power on a Northern Plantation,” which will open on April 10th.
Check back for more information on programming related to this partnership.
