A delicious resolution for 2025: feast on local food history!

Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/4iz0Jol

2025 is the 100th anniversary of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and the 50th anniversary of Claire’s Corner Copia, two iconic establishments that exemplify the extraordinary history of restaurants and other food businesses in New Haven. There is no better contemporary guide to New Haven’s historic foodways than Colin M. Caplan, a New Haven native, architectural designer, historian, author, tour operator and pizza guru.

Join archivist Jennifer Coggins from Yale’s Beinecke Library for an introduction to preserving and passing on your family’s history. Learn strategies for deciding what to keep, keeping items safe, organizing and describing materials for future generations, and more. This program is free and open to the public and registration is not required. For more details, see the NHFPL calendar https://nhfpl.libcal.com/event/13596295.

An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for other important visitor information.

A reminder the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas are always free and open to the public, seven days a week. See the library’s website for more information on hours and exhibitions and to explore the library online.

An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for other important visitor information.

A reminder the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas are always free and open to the public, seven days a week. See the library’s website for more information on hours and exhibitions and to explore the library online.

Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the first videotaping of survivor testimony on video by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, In the First Person is the first large-scale public exhibition of footage from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. In conjunction with this exhibit, the Fortunoff Archive is presenting a concert of its Songs from Testimonies project, featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje.