{"id":167052,"date":"2026-03-18T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167052\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:06:14","slug":"bowne-story-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167052\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowne story on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/emily.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Emily Vieyra-Haley at the Bowne House.\u00a0[Photo by Peter McDermott]<\/p>\n<p>\n              March 17, 2026<br \/>\n              by Irish Echo Staff\n            <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Bowne lived his religion, he didn\u2019t only preach it.\u201d So said Mayor Fiorella La Guardia in an Oct. 7, 1945 broadcast from 37-01 Bowne St. in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Bowne was the first generation to live at the house, and the Quaker was arrested there in 1662 by the men under the command of Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant. Members of the family\u2019s ninth generation living in the house, sisters Anna Parsons and Bertha Parsons, prepared the way in the mayor\u2019s time for it to become a museum that anyone can visit today. The remarkable story is being told again in a 27-minute film at nyc.gov. with Bowne House educator Emily Vieyra-Haley featured prominently (continuing in the family tradition: the Echo\u2019s late Irish-language columnist Barra \u00d3 Donnabh\u00e1in was a first cousin to her mom, the late Catherine Donovan). To view the film from Prism NYC, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/a002-vod.nyc.gov\/html\/embedplayer?id=4908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0And to see the Echo&#8217;s 2023 story about the Bowne House, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishecho.com\/2023\/12\/the-house-on-bowne-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Sign up to The Irish Echo Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"module-newsletter-left-description\">Sign up today to get daily, up-to-date news and views from Irish America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Vieyra-Haley at the Bowne House.\u00a0[Photo by Peter McDermott] March 17, 2026 by Irish Echo Staff \u201cJohn Bowne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7871,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-167052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-irishecho","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}