On September 30, my speech and english professors took my class on a field trip to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), but before we got there we stopped at the post office across from Adams Street entrance. My english professor told us about the its history and how it used to be a theater. On December 5, 1876, the theater was burned down in a fire where hundreds died. We were told that all the people that dies in that fire was memorialized. After the post office we went across Johnson Street to Columbus Park.

At Columbus Park we analyzed the statue of Henry Ward Beecher who was an abolitionist in 1800s. In his time he was a very famous speaker, so much that people would travel across frozen water in a ferry just to here him speak. If you turned your back looking toward Borough Hall you would see a Christopher Columbus statue. We came across Plymouth Congregational Church where you can see another statue of Beecher honoring him, but just to the left of Beecher was a statue Abraham Lincoln, former president and another abolitionist. We noticed the old vintage look the church tried to keep over the years with the big wooden doors and old red/brown bricks.

The class moved along down Orange street towards Brooklyn Bridge Park where we got to see a beautiful on a walkway. You could see into Manhattan and if you looked left you could the Statue of Liberty. The trip ended up in its final destination at the BHS. The first I realized was the faces at the top of the building, they were all philosophers and leaders of the past. The first thing I remember is going up to the library but before going in we saw a statue of Pinky a slave who was saved by Henry Beecher, the statue represented so much. The poison ivy around represented her being trapped as a slave. Where we learned that too much sun light can make the books fade. After the library we went to downstairs and was the first to class to be in the new classroom at BHS. We discussed the rules of BHS and their necessities.