How could something so wrong be so rewrite? The Battle of Brooklyn: A Farce in Two Acts at The Old Stone House & Washington Park is a work of satirical fiction written by an anonymous author just after the very real Battle of Brooklyn. While in deep research about the actual battle, the scholar in residence at The Old Stone House discovered this farce—and now, so can you.
On Friday, August 22 at 6:30pm, you can see "this funny piece of 249-year-old propaganda— lovingly abridged, introduced, and directed by local historian Dylan Yeats," as event organizers say. It’s also completely free (register here), so you can find out all the gossip on the Revolution and Founding Fathers and not lose anything. (Except, maybe, your mind.)
Brooklyn's Old Stone House, where this show takes place, is a historic house museum, a Revolutionary War battle site and the original home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It stands as a neighborhood cultural institution with educational, environmental and arts programming focused on connecting the past to the present all year round.