Join me at the City Winery on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025.

I'm bringing you another edition of Bowery Boys History Live,

a storytelling cabaret of all true tales and spellbinding secrets from the past.

And for this show, I'm bringing with me a premier lineup of special guests,

including author Elizabeth L. Block,

author and tour guide Keith Tallien from Keith York City,

and the Gilded Gentleman himself, Carl Raymond.

The show's theme is Gilded Age Golden Girls,

a night of storytelling with the late 19th century's most fascinating characters at its center.

So join us at the City Winery in the

Meatpacking District on P-57 on July 2nd, 2025. Tickets are now on sale and you can get

yours at Citywinery.com. Hello, this is Carl Raymond, host of the Gilded Gentleman History podcast, where every two weeks we journey into worlds light and dark

in America's Gilded Age, France's Belle-Puc and England's late Victorian and Edwardian

eras.

On February 22nd, 1887, Frederick Douglass climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.

One of 19th century America's most famous abolitionists and leaders in the fight for African-American civil rights,

Frederick Douglass had made the journey himself from enslavement to freedom, and

on to a triumphant career as orator, writer, and statesman for the country.

For Douglas, then 69 years old, and on an extended trip to Europe and Northern Africa

with his second wife, Helen, this moment became tremendously

symbolic for him. Gazing across the sands at a height of over 400 feet, Douglas looked out

not only on the ancient lives of the enslaved who had constructed the very monument on top

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