New York –Ticonderoga of the Hudson and the Atlantic- Center of the Quest for Human Rights. New York, a city and state, holds our rich history and reveals a success story-our American Dream. New York is a ticonderoga, the Iroquois term meaning a junction of two waterways, of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, [...]
Archive for June, 2010
New York: Junction of Waterways Junction of Ideas Wrap-up
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Saratoga and Ticonderoga
Posted in New York on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ticonderoga and Saratoga. Ft. Ticonderoga 1758: Iroquois for-The Junction of Two Waterways It is that junction that was critical during the French and Indian War, and for that reason that the French Fort Carillon was built in 1757. Ft Carillon, to be renamed Ticonderoga, divided the French-controlled Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence river valley [...]
Suffrage, Emancipation, Freedom
Posted in New York on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Suffrage, emancipation, freedom, these ideals define so much of who we are as a nation. That process, that quest toward democracy- that push and pull of ideas, ideals- carves out our identity, our social conscience as a nation. The struggle to become a more inclusive democracy unfolds in the 19th and 20th centuries and today. [...]
Day 11: Cooperstown
Posted in New York on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s a misty day in upstate New York today. The mountains are in the clouds and yet somehow without the sun around, things seem more vivid. The lake that these little towns surround is beautiful, quiet today as people seemed to have stayed in upon threat of rain. Today our visit began with the Baseball [...]
Day 10: Sagamore Hill: Home
Posted in New York on June 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“I wonder if you will ever know how much I love Sagamore Hill.”-Theodore Roosevelt to his Edith January 5, 1919 What resonated with me today is how Sagamore Hill was truly a home to Theodore Roosevelt and his family. I could see the Christmas tree with presents, children and dad running barefoot in summertime, six [...]
Slaves, Cotton and Silk
Posted in New York on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day Nine Slavery in New York in the early 19th Century Today we started out the day at the Historical Society. The presentation gave me many ideas and a template for how to examine documents, solve a mystery and work with primary sources. The topic: Jacob aka William Dixon. Was he a runaway slave? Was [...]
Day Eight: A Neighborhood Grows in Brooklyn and… From Broadway to Hollywood
Posted in New York on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Neighborhood Grows in Brooklyn Just blocks away from the hotel is a charming little neighborhood. The doorman at the hotel recommended a restaurant called La Traviatas, and after winding around in the rain, there was this great Brooklyn treasure of a neighborhood. Tonight a second try was in order, this time outside at Café [...]
Day Seven: The Lower East Side
Posted in New York on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lower East Side The Lower East Side is something I examine in my classroom as we look at tenements, neighborhoods, working conditions and the Progressive Era. Today fit perfectly with all of this. We walked near Mulberry Street and back through layers of time where Irish and Germans came in the first large wave, [...]
Day Six Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, The Plaza and Broadway
Posted in New York on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Day Six What the Hell Were They Thinking? Brooklyn Heights was the jumping off point for our tour today. It was also the jumping off point for George Washington and the 8,000 soldiers he snuck out of Brooklyn to prevent the war from ending in a fizzle in 1776. Things were looking grim, grim, grim [...]
Day Five: Walking Tour of New York
Posted in New York on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Day Five A Walking Tour of the City with Ed O’Donnell Historian, professor, storyteller and author Ed O’Donnell narrated a colonial history of New York today. His manner was easy going, fascinating and informative. As he began he painted a picture of the city not often told. Unlike the fictitious stereotypical “sale of New York”, [...]
