Good morning. Today is the 317th day of the year. On this day in 1927, the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to Jersey City, the first underwater auto tunnel built in the U.S., was opened. It was later joined by the Lincoln Tunnel.

Well-known people who were born today include actor Chris Noth (“Sex and the City,� “Law and Order�), comedienne Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple, Ghost), actress Sheila E. Frazier (Superfly) and football player Vinny Testaverde.

‘DUTCH DAYS’ MENU at First Reformed Church.

This Sunday, Nov. 15, after church, at 12:30 p.m., there will be a Dutch colonial-style dinner at Old First Dutch Reformed Church in Brooklyn Heights.

The menu includes such dishes as stewed cabbage, leeks, pumpkin cornmeal cakes, beef with ginger, chicken with orange, pear tart, almond tart and more.

It is based on recipes from an authentic cookbook of the period, De Verstandige Kok (The Sensible Cook), and will be served with wooden spoons.

The lunch is part of the “Five Dutch Days� festival, which celebrates this city’s Dutch heritage.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue.

Also this Sunday, at 3 p.m., Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music presents Michi Wiancko and the Violinistas at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, 131 Remsen St.

Among the pieces to be played are Prokofiev’s Sonata in C Major for Two Violins, Paganini’s Caprice No. 13 for Four Violins, Telemann’s Concerto in G Major for Four Violins and more.

The group includes eight accomplished violinists. As individuals, they have appeared with more than 60 orchestras and performed in 30 countries.

Michi Wiancko has assembled the musicians and devised the program for this concert. For more information, call (718) 985-3053.

‘BROOKLYN SEES STARS’ at LIU Library.

The Theatre Museum will be bringing its popular exhibition Brooklyn Sees Stars, which was on view earlier this year at the Brooklyn Public Library, to the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University from tomorrow through Dec. 18.

Curated by historian Craig Morrison, the exhibition paints a portrait of Brooklyn’s thriving theater scene from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th — a time when stage and screen stars regularly visited Brooklyn theaters. This was particularly true in the era before sound was added to motion pictures. The exhibition includes panels displaying images of historic theaters’ playbills, programs, production photographs and artifacts of Brooklyn’s colorful theater history.

Founded in 2003, the Theatre Museum is the state’s only chartered, non-profit museum dedicated to the history of theater.

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