Walking Tour: Love & Courtship on the Lower East Side

Celebrate Valentine's Day weekend at Eldridge Street!

Join a Museum at Eldridge Street expert guide on Sunday, February 15th at 11:30am as we visit sites where love once blossomed!

How did people meet and mingle 100 years ago? Did they confess their love in letters? Go to a matchmaker? Meet at work on a factory floor?

As immigrants wrestled with new American ways and their old traditions, 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.

Highlights:

• Visit Seward Park where young couples mingled
• Learn about secret synagogue elopements
• Discuss how love persevered through ideological differences
• Learn about the ins-and-outs of matchmaking, and about how assimilation brought about its decline

Ticket price includes museum admission.