Faces & Events

STRONGMAN

Pipefitter Bubba Fountain tossed this quarter-keg farther than any other competitor in the 34th annual Men's Winter Olympics (2020) at Rohman"s Pub in Shohola, Pennsylvania. He is a legend in the event, , having won the keg toss previously -- in fact, every time he's entered.

COUNTRY CHIC

A spectator at the annual men's winter Olympic event held outside the historic 19th Century Rohman's Pub in Shohola, Pennsylvania.

THEN & NOW

Gaëtane Niquet was "Jacky" in 1961, one of a community of young and attractive transexuals who hustled the streets of a Paris red light district to raise money for sex-change operations. Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm befriended them and documented their lives with images that became a sensational 1983 book, "Les Amies de Place Blanche." Niquet attended the 2012 opening of an exhibit of Strömholm's work at New York's International Center of Photography.

BEN & JERRY OCCUPY WALL STREET

The hippie-imaged Vermont ice cream vendor, now a subsidiary of Unilever, was one of the first large companies to support the 2011 protest. Co-founder Ben Cohen personally scooped out cones to all-comers at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.

PROTEST WITH SPRINKLES

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, serves cones to demonstrators and passersby at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in lower Manhattan. The Vermont-based ice cream company announced public support of the 2011 movement a few weeks after it began.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

Sound asleep in the "bedroom" section of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.

DR. DRE

The record producer and rapper speaks at New York event promoting Club Beats, a line of high-definition earbuds and headphones manufactured by Monster Cable Products with his collaboration.

Rapper and record producer Dr. Dre chats with fans at 2009 New York event promoting Club Beats, a line of headphones developed with his collaboration.

WILLEM DAFOE

The actor at a cast party following his 2009 opening night performance in Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant" at New York's Public Theater.

WELCOMING A NEW RECTOR

The Rev. Erika K. Meyers is installed by Bishop Catherine Roskam at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Manhattan on January 27, 2010.

CHURCH MUSIC

Choir sings at the installation of a new rector at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in January of 2010.

STEVE JOBS

THE APPLE CEO at 2006 opening of the company's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan.

GRAND OPENING

Apple CEO Steve Jobs at June, 2006, opening of Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City.

ACTOR KEVIN BACON

At June, 2006, opening of Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City

ACTOR JAMES WOODS

At June, 2006, opening of Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York.

IDITAROD MUSHER

Rachael Scidoris became the first legally blind musher to complete the 1,200-mile Iditarod sled dog race in 2006. She is seen here at age 20 with her father and manager, Jerry Scidoris, before the official start of the 2005 Iditarod.

ACTOR ANTHONY EDWARDS

The former "ER" star was back on TV running the 2009 New York City Marathon. The 47-year-old actor was helping to raise money for a pediatric hospital in Kenya. He finished in four hours, eight minutes and 20 seconds.

SLED DOG & HANDLER

At official start of 2005 Iditarod in Wasilla, Alaska

WOLFWEAR

Spectator at ceremonial start of 2005 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska

DANCING TO DRUMS

2006 Pow-wow on Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana

USS INDIANAPOLIS SURVIVOR

Mike Kuryla at 2007 Reading Air Show in Pennsylvania. Almost 1,200 men were aboard the heavy cruiser when a Japanese submarine sank it in the Philippine Sea on July 30, 1945. This was just days after the ship had delivered the Hiroshima atom bomb to the island of Tinian. The Indianapolis went down in 12 minutes. Mike was one of 317 men who survived after three nights and four days in the shark-infested waters. He died in 2009, age 84.

LIGHTER THAN AIR

Shrek floats down New York City's Central Park West in the 2008 Macy Thanksgiving Parade.

ERIC SCHMIDT

The Google chairman & CEO at 2010 Manhattan news conference announcing debut of Verizon's Droid X smartphone, based on Google's Android operating system.

TECH PIONEER

Google executive Andy Rubin led the team that developed the Android operating system for smartphones He is seen here at a 2010 Manhattan news conference in which Verizon announced a new phone using the Android OS.

VERIZON EXECUTIVE

Chief marketing officer John Stratton at 2010 Manhattan news conference announcing the Droid X smartphone.

TOUCH-UP

Whoopie Goldberg takes a powder at the 2013 Comic Con. The annual fan convention in New York celebrates comics, graphic novels, video games, toys, movies, and other pop culture entertainments.

WHOOPIE GOLDBERG

The comedienne and actress at the 2013 Comic Con. in New York. The annual fan convention celebrates comics, graphic novels, video games, toys, movies, and other pop culture entertainments.

FANS

At 2006 Comic Con in Manhattan.

COLIN FIRTH

The British actor at a question-and-answer forum following a New York screening of "Eye in the Sky," a 2015 movie about drone warfare. He co-produced the movie, which featured Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman.

ORGAN FESTIVAL

St. Paul.s Chapel celebrated the installation of a new three-manual Noack organ in 2018 with a week of concerts by distinguished organists. It is the sixth organ in New York City's oldest public building and is housed in the city's oldest organ case.

9/11 BANNER

St. Paul's Chapel has the World Trade Center as a neighbor, and it became a recovery center for the people who searched for victims at Ground Zero after the terrorist attack in 2001. It also became a place for America to show its love for those doing the grim work in the rubble so nearby.