Mayor Billy Portman presents the Borough of Red Bank’s Independence Day 2025 Proclamation to Arleen Brahn (second from right), grandmother of Deputy Mayor Kate Triggiano, who is flanked on her right by her mother Darleen Schweitzer.
Brahn, Triggiano said, has long been remarkably enthusiastic in her celebration of the nation’s birthday.
An essay she wrote for the Staten Island Historian in 2000 includes detailed descriptions of July 4h celebrations attended by hundreds of people on her family’s Staten Island farm, her involvement Staten Island Parade committees and other fascinating and enthralling accounts of life in a place that is now unrecognizable. You can read it here.
