On Sunday, Victory Club hosted a luncheon and private tour at the New York Historical Society. Members brought friends; non-members brought friends; and everyone had a fantastic time. So much so that the last guests left at 6pm for an event that began at 1:30pm !
Ryan Matzner and George Kailas on the tour of Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage exhibition.
The tour was focused on Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage exhibition, of which the closing day was Sunday.
![One of the pieces from Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage exhibition that represents Annie Oakley. Per the exhibition guide, "One of [Annie Oakley's] stunts was shooting through the center of a heart on a card from a distance of about forty feet. ... When…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a9dbce4b067efa390b51c/1424793423631-EJGQ9AXGKXNJG6AZRY6E/image-asset.png)
One of the pieces from Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage exhibition that represents Annie Oakley. Per the exhibition guide, "One of [Annie Oakley's] stunts was shooting through the center of a heart on a card from a distance of about forty feet. ... When she retired, she gave shooting lessons to women. 'I have always maintained that outside of heavy, manual labor, anything a man can do a woman can do practically as well,' she said."
Guests enjoying lunch.
An aerial shot after lunch had been cleared, which included the menus turned over for discussion of the literary passages.
To enhance conversation, every menu included a passage about New York, including an essay by Joan Didion, a quotation from Woody Allen's Manhattan, and a poem by Walt Whitman. The rest of the menu, and some of its features are included below.
