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     Sunday Oct 1  1 pm
 
     Reservations: 212-873-3400
 
     MAPS, COLLECT POND AND THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
 
     The exhibition, You Are Here, focuses on several important maps of the
     Collect Pond area in Lower Manhattan. Cheryl LaRoche, Conservator of
     the African Burial Ground Project, and Claudia Milne, Assistant
     Archaeologist of the Five Points Archaeological Project, talk about
     Collect Pond, the excavation of the African Burial Ground and efforts
     to conserve the remains.
 
 
     Sunday October 8   1 pm Reservations as above
 
     Gallery Talk
 
     THE MAP PROJECT
 
     Learn about the just-completed project, funded by the Natinal
     Endowment for the Humanities, to survey the Historical Society's
     15,000 maps. You'll also see a selection of 40 maps that offer views
     of New York. [I suspect they mean you can visit the exhibit on the
     second floor, which has 40 maps...]
 
     fyi--the Society and its library are open Wed-Sunday 12 Noon to 5PM.