My older kiddo collects rocks. We have rocks on our book case. We have rocks in a large pail. He has rocks in his room. Because of his love of rocks and our family’s general love of adventure, we decided to visit the naturally occurring boulder field in the Hickory Run State Park during […]
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Last Sunday, my family and I visited Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been wanting to visit this park since before it opened because…Shirley Chisholm: so many firsts as a Black woman politician. Read Chisholm’s bio at the National Women’s History Museum. Before visiting the state park, I didn’t know much beyond the […]
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My first exposure to big sculpture was during a temp assignment at a construction firm in the East Bay (California). I was assigned to the human resources department and one of my tasks was to organize the art files of the firm’s owner. Doing this work, I saw the large scale pieces of artists like […]
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In the popular imagination, I think it’s fair to say that Broadway is the quintessential NYC street but most people are unfamiliar with this history of this thoroughfare. Broadway, according to The Wayfinding Project at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, “runs along a portion of the original matrix of trails that connected Manaháhtaan to the […]
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To see one of the newest parks in New York, I joined at least 15 other people on a tour of the Paerdegat Ecology Park in Carnasie, Brooklyn, on September 23rd. Paerdegat Ecology Park is one element of Paerdegat Basin Natural Area Park and Ecology Park. The natural area and ecology parks are a community […]
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We are diving back into New York by visiting some of our favorite parks. Last week I shared our walk on the High Line. Today’s field trip recap is of Brooklyn Bridge Park. As with the High Line, we explored portions of the park we’ve already spent time in; for BPP that means the Main Street […]
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