tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post1163024646336350544..comments2023-10-26T09:58:01.275-04:00Comments on The Bowery Boys: New York City History: A Wretched Anniversary: The Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876The Bowery Boys - Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15973633888975286268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-32431907178698019592012-11-04T23:53:39.589-05:002012-11-04T23:53:39.589-05:00I had four family members who perished in that fir...I had four family members who perished in that fire. My great-great grandmother, who turned 30 just two weeks before the event, had a ticket as well and only missed the show because she got stuck at work while her four brothers (two brothers and two half-brothers) attended...and all four perished in the fire. Had she made it to the show, I wouldn't exist, as she undoubtedly would have perished as well and my lineage would have stopped right then and there in 1876. According to my great grandfather's (her son's) memoir, she wore black every day the rest of her life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-17275151585726225612011-12-13T00:57:40.296-05:002011-12-13T00:57:40.296-05:00how sad. how awful.how sad. how awful.zosimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02441787916141422194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-18541860895485217742011-12-10T01:21:12.710-05:002011-12-10T01:21:12.710-05:00Wow, you write so vividly I felt like an eyewitnes...Wow, you write so vividly I felt like an eyewitness. I had seen the memorial monument in Greenwood a few months ago. So sad. I used to pass that little section of Cadman Plaza every day after work, I never stopped to realize it was the actual site of the theater. :OVoyagerGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06203350059685279886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-76257725237296113022011-12-05T09:41:23.099-05:002011-12-05T09:41:23.099-05:00Wasn't Laura Keene performing that night? I ha...Wasn't Laura Keene performing that night? I had read somewhere that she was.Elizabeth Kerri Mahonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07763642809052430107noreply@blogger.com