Ground Zero Memorial Park 9/2011

We visited the Memorial Park in Manhattan, NY on a rainy day witch added to the solemn occasion.  It was very moving for me.  It was also beautiful.  I visited St. Paul's church where much care was given for months, to the rescue workers who needed rest. The park and museum will be completed in 2012 and the new One World Trade Center will be done in 2014.  One floor of the planned 178 floors a week is being completed.  The memorial falls are in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers.  The thousands of names of the lost are engraved along the four sides of each falls of all those that died on 911 and those who died when the Towers were attacked several years ago.

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The new World Tower from afar

This building will be over 1776 feet high, 178 floors

Artists painting of the memorial park when it is completed

This man is bonded to his fallen peers

We visited the Harbor View Memorial Park in Bayonne, New Jersey to see the Tear Drop memorial which was a gift from the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin in honor of those who died on 911.  Also at the site is a memorial for the people from this city of Bayonne who died in the Towers.

This is the Bayonne Memorial

This is the Tear Drop. 

Steel from one of the Twin Towers

This is one of the 4 foot sections of marble surrounding the base of the Tear Drop with all the names of the people who died in the other 2 planes and in the Towers on 911.

Our group

This Tear Drop is massive.

New York, Manhattan, and Brooklyn 9/2011

What an amazing, busy, noisy, crowded, beautiful place.  I can't believe the number of people and vehicles.  The subway system is another world in itself and for me was a bit unnerving.  The buildings are sky high and the rent is too.  The average rent is $2000 a month minimum except in the subsidized housing.  The city has wonderful old buildings, art and museums and parks.  The stores and shopping are endless if you wanted it to be.
So far I have visited the Federal Reserve Bank and touched gold bars, been on a tenement building and culture food tour, ground zero and memorial garden, the tear drop, NYC Museum of Art, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn and many, many miles on the subway and buses and many miles walked.  I cannot even mention all the other things I have seen and done in between all this!  So just enjoy the pictures.

Time Square in daytime

Normal traffic

Traffic jam, also normal

This guy lives in the wax museum

City sculpture art of the Bull in the Financial District

Apartments, would you like to rent one?

Maritime sailors sculpture of a rescue

You see all types in MYC

The people are endless here in Time Square

The city is well polices, even mounted police on around

We had a good rain on this bus trip and we are soaked

Manhattan at night from the Brooklyn side of the river

The Empire State Building top at night

Town Square at night

Paul Revere's Home

This is the oldest wooden structure still standing in Boston, MA.  Paul Revere bought this home when it was almost 100 years old.  He lived in it with his first wife who passed away giving birth to their 8th child.  Paul remarried and had 8 more children while living in this home.  The home is now 300 years old.  Much has been restored due to wood rot except for the main beams and rock fireplace structures.

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Old photos of the home.  Shutters are still on here.

Anyone for a Bean?

What a cute way to talk about beans  :))

The Beauty of Granite August 2011

We visited the town called Graniteville in Vermont.  These are carvings of headstones made by the exceptionally talented carvers of the 1800's.  Look at them for the beauty without a morbid thought.  Many of the carvers carved their own headstones because they were dying of lung disease from the dust of the marble created while carving.  Not all of these photos of the headstones are for the carvers.  I did not pay $10 for the brochure to see which ones are for the carvers.  Click to enlarge and enjoy the detail of them.