Lower Manhattan Calendar Nov 15, 2018

Travel back in time on the Washington & Hamilton in New York City “Secrets of the Past” walking tour in Lower Manhattan.  This informative and entertaining tour is led by Bruce Racond, a licensed New York City tour guide with over 20 years of experience. New York City, the most iconic city in the world, is home to more than 240 years of rich American history. Few stories are more powerful and moving than that of the partnership between founding fathers George Washington and Alexander Hamilton before, during and after the American Revolution. $26, $35.

Tour of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Tour highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, viewing the Collectors office;  Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140 ton rotunda dome by Raphael Gustavino. FREE. One Bowling Green. www.americanindian.si.edu

Guided tour at Fraunces Tavern Museum. Free with admission $7, $14. 54 Pearl Street. http://frauncestavernmuseum.org

Wayzgoose is a 500-year-old printers’ tradition celebrating the changing of the seasons. This occasion is an opportunity for printers to share our labor with colleagues and friends, and to toast and reflect on a year of hard work. Please join us for printing demonstrations using our 19th-century equipment, seasonal light refreshments, and stationery offerings for the holiday season and new year. Please RSVP. FREE. 12 Fulton Street.

Join the award-winning hoop dancing duo, Joseph Secody (Navajo) and Tomas Hunt (Navajo) as they demonstrate and share their dance skills and history of hoop dancing.  FREE. One Bowling Green.  www.americanindian.si.edu

Elisha Wiesel introduces a new, illuminating book about Elie Wiesel by Ariel Burger, a devoted protege and friend. Burger takes us into the potent space of the classroom where the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient revealed his skill as a master teacher who made a profound impact on his students. Free. 36 Battery Place.  www.mjhnyc.org

Born in Hong Kong, award-winning feminist poet Marilyn Chin maps immigrant and transnational identity in poems that are aesthetically wide-ranging and deft, making use of both Eastern and Western literary forms and cultural referents drawn from Chinese history and American popular culture. As Adrienne Rich has said of her work, “Marilyn Chin’s poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings, their theatre of anger, ‘fierce and tender,’ their compassion, and their high mockery of wit. Reading her, our sense of the possibilities of poetry is opened further, and we feel again what an active, powerful art it can be.” She is the author of five poetry books, including this year’s A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems, and a novel. $7, $10. 10 River Terrace. www.poetshouse.org

Iconic comedian Louie Anderson, a three-time Emmy­-Award-winner, is one of the country’s most adored comics. Recognized by Comedy Central as “One of 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time,” his career has spanned more than 30 years. He is a best-selling author, star of his own stand-up specials and sitcoms, and continues to tour the country performing to standing-room-only crowds. Louie won his most recent Emmy for his portrayal of Christine Baskets, Zach Galifianakis’ mother, on the FX series Baskets. His latest book, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too is Louie’s way of catching Ora Zella Anderson up on everything that has been going on in his life. Hey Mom (2018 Simon and Shuster) pays tribute to his mother who he has channeled in his stand-up routine for decades. $39. 3 Spruce Street.  http://schimmelcenter.org