“Retro Flashes” are Journey’s quick takes on moments of history that have made New York City what it is, what New Yorkers are, and, maybe, what it will be.

In August 1657,  the noisy, exuberant Quakers arrive street preaching the Day of the Lord. The two women evangelists shouted out the latest word on the Coming of Jesus, then disappeared to “the suburbs” before the stuffed shirt authorities could arrest them.