Janet and John on Holidays: Ch 2 – The second – even bigger bang!
If you’re not already aware of my Sci Fi tendencies – this is probably your first visit to this blog – so welcome. Given my childhood love for Mr Spock, what…
Category: History
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Janet and John on Holidays: Ch 1 – The First Big Bang
So –Janet and John take a holiday (vacation for my American friends) and where do we go? The middle of nowhere of course…. But not just any nowhere. A radioactive nowhere…
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Rusting relics and regal stares…
We set out for Queens last weekend, to explore Flushing Meadows – knowing only that it had a zoo – and that’s where the US Open Tennis is played. Wow – were…
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Take that Al Capone!
Last weekend, we hired a car and headed up the Hudson Valley looking for some of that autumn foliage for which this part of the world is justifiably famous. It was pretty…
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The Ghosts of Ellis Island.
I’ve been looking back at my photos of Ellis Island – and the faces that stared out at me from the walls. What courage those people had! They were journeying into the…
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The Gateway To a New Life
As a modern-day visitor to the US, it seemed only fitting that I should visit Ellis Island – which was the gateway to a new life for so many migrants. 12 million…
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I Meet a Big Green French Woman
There’s something about cities with a harbour – we are always drawn to the water. New York’s harbour has a couple of things worth visiting – first and foremost of course is…
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Things I Love about New York No. 1 – The NYC Public Library
So – time to play tourist. I set out, map in hand, to find the New York Public Library. The library has dozens of branches around the five boroughs, but its heart…