Officials and experts will gather on Monday, Sept. 21 to mark the 100-year anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s departure from Hoboken at the end of his iconic visit to the United States.
The ceremony will take place at the end of the city’s Pier A Park at 11 a.m.
Professor Gerald Grob of Rutgers University will speak briefly about the significance of the occasion. A few selections from Freud’s travel diary (some never before translated into English) will be read by a Freud re-enactor.
Freud was invited to give lectures at Clark University in Massachusetts, but he came by way of New York, and his ships berthed at Hoboken.
A public lecture at the Hoboken Historical Museum furnishing background on the Pier A event will be presented by Professor John Burnham of Ohio State University on Sunday, Sept. 20, at 4 p.m. at the Hoboken Historical Museum.
For more information, call John Burnham at (614) 506-0989.