Anne Marie explains her bike history from Trinidad to the Lower East Side.
#movingstories barre workout on the East River.
Collectively #movingstories walked 3906 steps today.
Virginia standing at the place of her first kiss.
Scenes from today’s walking group.
Mock up: Participants may engage with a senior led walking tour online by selecting a guide and connecting to their story on a map. Choose your own route through the Lower East Side based on location, storyteller or topic. Play the moving stories game and exercise your memory skills.
Mendy and the Laundered Shul
We visited the place on Stanton Street where Phyllis’ dad bought his Saturday suits. It is now a lot used as a community garden.
Larry Rosen from The Moth prompted the seniors to share:
I am the type of person who________
I will never forget_______.
The best thing about me is_______.
What my friends would say is the worst thing about me_______.
…and what changed as a result?
Warming up moving storytellers
3D scans of senior story tellers. Future game pieces for the Moving Stories memory game.
Fred Kahl is the visionary artist behind 3D printing content creation studio Scan-A-Rama 3D. Fred presented his latest project which encompasses a fully 3D printed scale model of Coney Island’s historic Luna Park as it appeared 100 years ago. Here he is demonstrating by scanning a 3D portrait of Hector.
These suit hangers come from Winokur’s and Pearlman’s on Stanton Street. and were used by Phyllis’ father to hang his lucky suits in the 1950’s. Inscribed with the sayings “exclusive but not expensive” and “featuring good clothes” Where do you get that now?
Perform a movement that describes a simple detail of where you come from.