Tag: Walkabout

Walkabout: Thomas E. Murray, Brooklyn’s Most Important Forgotten Inventor, Part 2

Brooklynite Thomas E. Murray was one of America’s greatest inventors. A colleague of Thomas E...

By Suzanne Spellen 04/30/2015 1

Walkabout: Thomas E. Murray, Brooklyn’s Most Important Forgotten Inventor, Part 1

Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. As you travel east on Atlantic Avenue sometime, take a ...

By Suzanne Spellen 04/28/2015 3

Walkabout: The Maid, the Murder, and Those Walsh Boys – A Brooklyn Tale, Part 3

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. Pretty 16 year old housemaid Barbara Gronenthal was dea...

By Suzanne Spellen 04/23/2015 1

Walkabout: The Maid, the Murder, and Those Walsh Boys – A Brooklyn Tale, Part 2

This is the story of two poor families in Brooklyn and a terrible crime. In the Part 1, we met o...

By Suzanne Spellen 04/22/2015 1

Walkabout: The Maid, the Murder, and Those Walsh Boys — A Brooklyn Tale, Part 1

Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. Everyone who knew the Walsh boys knew they would come t...

By Suzanne Spellen 04/16/2015 4