Finding Shakespeare in Surprising Places
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to […]
Tag Archives: Greenwich Village
Happy Birthday, Walk About New York
“We are always the same age inside.” —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) Walk About New York turns one-year old today. We will always be a kid at heart, exploring and discovering the […]
Telling “Tales”
“Unlike anything I’d seen before!” —Martin Scorsese, (1942– ) I remember my high school French classes very well. For French III and IV the teacher was Mr. McMullin, a short, […]
From Courthouse to Library to Landmark
“At Old Jeff there is also the literature of architecture: cut stone faces and flowers, spiral stairs, soaring stained glass windows, the feeling, form and sensibility of another age. This, […]
Stained Glass, For the Law & Learning
“The atmosphere in which literature and knowledge are dispensed is part of a cultural package. Today it is the fashion to offer a kind of statistical, book-counting culture in visually […]
An Older Christmas Tree Tradition
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, Your branches green delight us. They’re green when summer days are bright: They’re green when winter snow is white. O Christmas Tree, O Christmas […]
World War I Memorials, Part Two
“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.” […]
Fifth Avenue Racing
“I enjoy Saturday night racing.” —Dale Earnhardt (1951–2001) What about Sunday night racing, Mr. Earnhardt? It was only last night that we spotted this three-wheeled Morgan along the Gold Coast […]
Hunting the Moon
“Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day” —German Proverb October’s full moon is known as the Hunter’s Moon. After […]
A Long Shadow
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Abraham Lincoln and […]
walkaboutny 