Category Archive for 'NYC'

A Day Trip to the City and Basketball

Posted in "Art", NYC, family, history on Mar 7th, 2010

Museums Continue to Surprise
Karen and I got off to an earlier than usual departure from Hudson yesterday and made it into Harlem by 11 am. After some pauses to chase the various children around, we went off to The Museum of the City of NY at 103rd and 5th Ave. It was a warm day [...]

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Touring a Vision of the South Bronx – “The Provenance of Beauty” by Foundry Theater

Posted in "Art", NYC, anecdotes on Oct 25th, 2009

At the urging and direction of Karen I drove down to the city Saturday (10/24/09) to attend this event, “The Provenance of Beauty” by Foundry Theater. It proved to be interesting as a performance piece though at times too tendentious in content.1
Click here for a video provided by the Foundry Theatre.
Karen will go on this [...]

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Noah Graduates to Middle School at Trinity

Posted in NYC, family on Jun 13th, 2009

6/9/9
Grandson Noah Gilstrap graduated into the Middle School at Trinity in NYC.
A telling point for me was the symbolic transition from the Lower School environment in which the students gave hugs to the Headmistress as they came up on the stage and crossed to greet the Headmistress of the Middle School with a handshake.

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A Weekend of Museums – Brooklyn Museum, MOMA & the MET

Posted in "Art", NYC on Apr 2nd, 2009

Last weekend we spent one very busy Saturday in New York City museuming. We started in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum. This time we took the 2 train from 125th St in Harlem. After 45 minutes and a bit of subway back and forth caused by track work, we emerged from the subway walking up [...]

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Milt Rogovin – The Forgotten Ones

Posted in "Art", NYC on Oct 12th, 2003

During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day [...]

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