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Digitizing History | Ask Trinity Archives
October 15, 2020
Does a device as simple to use and as ubiquitous as a scanner provide the path that brings historical artifacts into the digital age? Good question. The answer is more complicated than you might think. Watch the latest episode of Ask Trinity Archives with archivists Joe Lapinski and Marissa Maggs.
Trinity Parish Members Explain “Why”
October 8, 2020
While Trinity is certainly a parish with history and influence, congregation members consider it, for a variety of reasons, first and foremost, their church family.
Alexander Hamilton’s Church Attendance | Ask Trinity Archives
October 2, 2020
If we could somehow be transported back in time to a Sunday morning in either the late 18th or early 19th century, how likely is it that we would see Alexander Hamilton sitting in a pew during a worship service?
Trinity Commons Speaker Series with Kevin Tuerff
September 23, 2020
When Kevin Tuerff and his partner began their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that the world was about to change forever.
NYC Real Estate: 17th-Century Style | Ask Trinity Archives
September 18, 2020
Ask Trinity Archives deals with the history of Trinity Church Wall Street, which is now into its fourth century in the same location in Lower Manhattan. A viewer of the video series recently sent a question about the origin of Trinity’s ownership of the land at Broadway and Wall Street.
Four Centuries of Artifacts | Ask Trinity Archives
September 3, 2020
The archives of Trinity Church Wall Street is a rare place, where digital records produced on a laptop or photos shot on an iPhone can be found alongside documents from the 17th century written in ink on parchment.
A Child’s Short Life Remembered | Ask Trinity Archives
August 20, 2020
The status of the churchyard of Trinity Church Wall Street as a final resting place is significantly older than the parish itself.
Episcopal Explained: Incense
August 13, 2020
Burning incense for prayer and worship is a custom not only ancient, but also widely practiced by a variety of faith communities.
Philip Hamilton’s Final Resting Place | Ask Trinity Archives
August 6, 2020
Alexander Hamilton died in his late forties, killed in 1804 in a duel with then Vice President Aaron Burr. Less known, at least until the Hamilton musical, is the death of Hamilton’s eldest child, Philip, at age 19, also in a duel, in 1801.
Personal Favorites of Our Archivists | Ask Trinity Archives
July 24, 2020
The history of Trinity Church Wall Street spans more than three centuries, and overlaps the history of both New York City and the United States, with those documents and stories preserved in an extensive archive.