Storycorps

Getting an interview through Storycorps was also a most wonderful experience.

The mission of the group is to "honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening."

"Since 2003, over 35,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind."

Most awesome thing ever. :-)

Tenement Museum

New York's Tenement Museum focuses on America's urban immigrant history. The museum itself is the street. Our guide was excellent. He spent about an hour explaining the history of the area.

He showed us the restaurant where Trotsky ate almost every night when he lived in New York. It is now an Asian diner. He also showed us a place where there was carved into the stone the face of Karl Marx.

What an experience.

Grateful, nyc

1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through a day
2. Grateful for wonderful weekend in NYC
3. Grateful for Story Corps interview - amazingly wonderful!
4. Grateful for Lucia at the Met - what an experience!

5. Grateful for the Tenement Museum visit - so interesting!
6. Grateful for first experience at a bed and breakfast
7. Grateful for nice meals with great company including roommate Maria from Argentina

On an unrelated matter, STC articles included review of Elmore Leonard's book and first part of green print experience article. Articles to come I hope include - member bio, article on moving to Clearview from Gothic Highway, more on green print?

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Sat. Oct. 18 - included Diana Damrau as Lucia (also sung by Sutherland in her lifetime) and Piotr Becazala as Edgardo (sung by Pavaroti in his lifetime) and Vladimir Sotyanov as Enrico. In typical opera form, this opera included blood and hysterics and very high drama. Lucia loves Edgardo. But a letter she gets from him shows he does not love her. She ends up marrying someone else, prompted by her brother's recommendation, only to find that her dispicable (who I hate) brother forged the letter. Lucia goes absolutely crazy and as a consequence goes on a spree that leaves her with blood on her dress - we see her singing with this blood all over the place. It is based on a true story.

Craig's list

1. Grateful to God and all that gets me through a day
2. Grateful to Craig's list
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/vac/873370250.html

STC conferences

1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through the day
2. Grateful to this list of STC conferences especially those in warm places

2009 Atlanta, Georgia
3-6 May
Room rate: $174.00

2010 Dallas, Texas
2-5 May
Room rate: $169.00

2011 Sacramento, California
15-18 May
Room rate: 174.00

2012 Chicago, Illinois
20-23 May
Room rate: 199.00

2013 Atlanta, Georgia
5-8 May
Room rate: 179.00

sombrero birthday

Cell, Good Nature

1. Grateful to God and all that helps me get through a day.
2. Grateful that I topped up my cell phone due 10/31/2008 14 left plus 10 now 24
3. Good Nature is coming on Monday