Check out a cool interview here with Prospect Park's very own historian and archivist, Amy Peck, on the blog of StoryKeep, a firm that creates tribute videos and books. I've had the pleasure of meeting Amy a few times; her enthusiasm is infectious, the very opposite of the notion of an archivist as a curator of dusty memories. Did you know that the park may be the repository of two lost time capsules?
And if you're parky enough to follow this blog, you may be interested in
AMY'S ARCHIVEY GOODNESS FACEBOOK FOLLOWS
* The Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (it's a national park in Brookline, Massachusetts).
* The Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance.
* The New York City Transit Museum.
* The Brooklyn Historical Society.
* The Library of American Landscape History.
and the digitized photo collections of the New York Public Library and the Museum of the City of New York.
Amy, let me add one indispensable gem to that list: Forgotten New York!