August 16, 2025 - Through These Gates: Ellis Island Storytelling with Ellen Marie Wiseman and Venessa Vida Kelley

Saturday, August 16, 202511:00 am Join us on historic Ellis Island for an unforgettable afternoon celebrating the power of storytelling, resilience, and hope with Ellen Marie Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of The Lies They Told, and Venessa Vida Kelley, acclaimed author of When the Tides Held the Moon. Event ticket includes round-trip ferry service to Ellis Island, with access to both the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration and the Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island. Optional add-ons include signed copies of books by featured authors Ellen Marie Wiseman and Venessa Vida Kelley. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, these two powerful new novels illuminate the often-overlooked histories of immigrants striving to find their place in a new world. Kelley’s novel follows a Puerto Rican immigrant in turn-of-the-century Coney Island, while Wiseman’s story begins on Ellis Island in 1928, where a young German woman is separated from her family b