on Mount Desert Island, Maine
Visited: April 21, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 29 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
The first National Park east of the Mississippi. The majority of Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Rugged Maine Atlantic Ocean coastline, granite-domed bald mountains, 45 miles of paved carriage roads paved by John D. Rockefeller and over 120 miles of hiking [...]
Archive for April, 2004
Dear Boston – Part Two
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Michael:
Dear Boston:
I never wanted to like you. I do not remember having many good times with you. I admit I was charmed many years ago as a pre-teen. The pictures show me re-enacting the Boston Tea Party and interacting with ducks in Boston Common. Not sure how those photo-ops occurred, but they did. Since then [...]
Dear Boston – Part One
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Gab:
Dear Boston:
I am sorry. I am really sorry.
For years, I have said horrible things about you. Blamed you for being boring, stuffy, expensive, snooty – all based on ill-planned weekend trips while I was living in Providence. I always had such high expectations yet never had a good time. I blamed you.
This weekend, this beautiful [...]
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Boats, Commerce, Economic History, Massachusetts, Sailing, Salem, Witch Trials on April 16, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Salem, Mass.
Visited: April 16, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 24 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Second largest port in the colonies in the 18th and early 19th centuries. So many boats bore the name of Salem, that Eastern countries thought “Salem” was a nation to itself.
Salem is also the site of the most horrific witch hunt in the [...]
New York City – Feels Like Home
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Gab:
There is no national monument in Brooklyn, but the apartment and the neighborhood that knew my mom as a girl are there. I could not wait to find them.
There is no national park in Garfield, North Jersey, but Michael’s Uncle Steve lives there. Barcelona’s, home of the best pizza ever, is there too.
There is no [...]
Ellis Island National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2004 | 2 Comments »
In New York Harbor and off Jersey City shoreline, N.J. and N.Y.
Visited: April 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
NPS Website; Local Website.
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Feels Like Home
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We Are A Nation of Searchers
WHAT IS IT?
Immigration inspection center of the United States from 1892 to 1954.
BEAUTY (7/10)
We [...]
Federal Hall National Memorial
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
southern Manhattan, N.Y.
Visited: April 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 19 of 353
NPS Website.
WHAT IS IT?
Neo-classical building completed in 1842 located at 26 Wall Street across from the New York Stock Exchange. At this site in 1789, but in a previous building, the Bill of Rights was adopted and George Washington took the Oath of Office as [...]
New York City – A Nation of Searchers
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Michael:
We are a nation of travelers, a nation of searchers, a nation of immigrants. We have never been stagnant. We move for a better life, we move for answers, we move for adventure, we move to escape, we move. Almost 100 years ago my ancestors boarded a ship to come to the United States. I [...]
Castle Clinton National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
New York City, N.Y.
Visited: April 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 17 of 353
NPS Website.
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Feels Like Home
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We Are A Nation of Searchers
WHAT IS IT?
Circular brick fort built between 1808 and 1811 to defend New York City. The fort has since been used as the New York [...]
Statue of Liberty National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
New York Harbor
Visited: April 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 18 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
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Feels Like Home
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We Are A Nation of Searchers
WHAT IS IT?
152-foot high copper statue of Lady Liberty designed by Frederic Bartholdi and given to the United States by the French people in [...]
