Love and Courtship LES Tour

The Lower East Side was home to family-arranged marriages as well as young people mixing freely at dance halls and making their own matches.  Meet at the Museum at Eldridge St for a tour of the sites where love once blossomed, including the former site of a popular dance hall, Seward Park and Seward Park Library, as well as bustling streets, stoops and shops. Along the way, hear accounts from 19th- and early 20th-century novels, newspapers and a Yiddish love-letter writing manual that draw a vivid portrait of turn-of-the-20th century wooing, love and marriage.