Weekend Events

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn’s Storefronts
Photographer-curators James and Karla Murray have searched Brooklyn to observe mom and pop businesses from neighborhood stores to well-known institutions. The exhibition reveals how neighborhood stores help set the pulse, life, and texture of their communities.
Tonight and through December 28. Hours vary. Adults $6, $4 Students and Seniors, and Children under 12 free. Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street.

Disappearing Dutch Houses of Brooklyn
Learn about the vanishing history of Dutch architecture in Brooklyn at this talk, part of Five Dutch Days and sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Using methods of historical archaeology, scholar Christopher Ricciardi will focus attention on several dozen houses and explore the history of the Dutch in Kings County.
Sunday, November 16. 2 p.m. Free. Lefferts Historic House, located at the Children’s Corner, inside the Park’s Willink Entrance, at the intersection of Flatbush and Ocean Avenues and Empire Boulevard.

Gobble, Gobble! Talkin’ Turkey
Children 12 and under are invited to this event. Come in for an afternoon discussion about this unique bird and create your own turkey craft.
Saturday, November 15. 1 p.m. Free. Salt Marsh Nature Center, Marine Park (East 33rd Street and Avenue U).

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Early Christmas Workshop
Nancy Kitchen is giving this Early Christmas Workshop at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This hands-on course teaches the history of early Christmas celebrations in America. In this class, participants can create designs to celebrate the holidays like a wreath, a boxwood topiary tree, or a festive door swag. Bring pruning shears, wire cutter, scissors, and rubber gloves.
Sunday, November 16. 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $138 member, $158 nonmember (Fee includes $76 materials charge). Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue.

How Doomed is America?
Comic artist David Rees (Get Your War On) and journalist Matt Taibbi (Spanking the Donkey) discuss politics and journalism, placing America’s future on a scale of one to doomed.
Saturday, November 15. 4 p.m. Free. Brooklyn Public Central Library, Dweck Center, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway.