Feeling your Blue Pride? Make that Indigo
It’s a throwback this fine Thursday to the “Mood Indigo” scene from the 1989 BFS original musical A Small Cabaret. A Small Cabaret was a departure from the traditional BFS musical: […]
Category: History of BFS
1947-48, the year BFS was nearly lost, Part II
Celebrating our school having been saved,The Friends School Life, February 16, 1948 This week, I’m following up on last week’s post concerning the discovery of the 1947-1948 Fight to Save BFS Scrapbook which allowed […]
1947-48, the year BFS was nearly lost, Part I
A jaw-dropping BFS moment of my last ten years working at my alma mater occurred in 2006, during preparations to renovate the MS/US Library on the 3rd floor of 375 […]
Happy Holidays – Yesterday and Today
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year! A moment from a 1930s Lower School Christmas Pageant. And a moment from this year’s Holiday Sing when, for the first […]
100 Years of BFS – The 1967 Centennial
BFS Centennial in the New York Daily News, September 10, 1967 Click for the full PDF Celebrating our school’s 100th anniversary proved an incredible start to the 1967-1968 school year […]
Bayard Rustin Honored & New York Quakers Apologize to Afro-Descendants
Bayard Rustin Following up to my Gatekeeper No More post of November 7. That post shared the known history of our school’s winding path to integration which helped Brooklyn Friends […]
A bolt from the blue, it’s true, it’s you…
1987 Dames At Sea Take two minutes to enjoy a charming duet in the BFS Middle School’s 1987 production of Dames at Sea, capturing the moment when our romantic leads […]
Gatekeeper No More
1940, BFS Principal Douglas Grafflin’s Address to the Trustees of the Schools of New York Monthly Meeting proposing the enrollment of African American students at BFS. Please click to read Grafflin’s entire […]
Our 2nd expansion,1888: Part 3 of Our Buildings, Our History
A front view of NYMM’s Schermerhorn properties ca. 1888, showing the eastern side of the Brooklyn Meeting House The second expansion of BFS occurred in 1888 with the purchase of […]
1867 to 1886 and Our First Expansion – Part 2 of Our Buildings, Our History
Look at the right of this ca. 1893 photo of the Germania Club to see the Brooklyn Meeting House at the far right. Look closely to see the snow on what seems to be the rooftop of […]
Stretching ourselves once upon the Natchez Trace
1987’s The Robber Bridegroom, Upper School Musical Scanning a 1920s scrapbook by hand can be monotonous, so I’ve been multi-tasking by going to my family’s collection of BFS videos once […]
Video archives return with Forward to the Past, 1989
Forward to the Past – Finale – 1989 Do you remember Forward to the Past: Historical Hysterical Follies of Brooklyn Friends School? That was the 1989 musical about BFS – […]