Brooklyn Historical Society Admission Is Free This Friday For St. Patrick's Day

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Admission to the Brooklyn Historical Society is free on Friday, March 10, and the museum will be open late, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

The museum for this month's Free Friday will host a lineup of Irish cultural celebrations, including a lecture about the Irish in New York, a special library of collection items on display, beers from Brooklyn Brewery and a tasting of alcohol from Kings County Distillery.

Friday evening's schedule is as follows:

5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Drink-n-draw: chill out with a beer and your creative side!
5:45 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Special library collection items on display featuring Delmonico's and more!
6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
From Potato Famine to Tammany Hall: How the Irish Came to Run New York, a lecture by Elizabeth Stack
7:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
The Whiskey Wars, a talk and tasting by Kings County Distillery

The next Free Fridays at BHS fall on April 14 and May 12th.

St. Patrick's Day this year is on March 17, 2017, one week after the BHS will celebrate it.

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