Jenna

Brooklyn

The Wyckoff-Bennett House

My grandfather grew up with Ms. Bennett and she would invite us into the kitchen regularly. A public school kid, I did not have much time for history but in her kitchen everything was fascinating. When I was graduated from elementary school I made my friends walk down this street. The dirt instead of cement and thoughts of how much things could change inspired me. Today I am an archaeologist, live in Brooklyn and work in New York. History is everywhere and it shapes New York as we know it today. Ms. Bennett knew that, my grandfather as well, this place reminds everyone who passes that just a generation or two ago Brooklyn had farms. It might again, my neibors have chickens.