Archive for the 'US Presidents' Category
Broadway and Presidential
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
I had never been able quite understand how Bob could sit through so many Broadway shows in New York City, and had considered skipping out on a one or two of the four that he was seeing. But in the end, I attended all of them with no regrets whatsoever. Wednesdays are the standard day that there are matinee performances as well, so on this Wednesday, May 29, 2013, we saw two shows, both of which were outstanding. But even with two shows on our docket, that didn’t stop us from getting a few other important sites under our belt that day. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Roosevelt and Me
Friday, December 20th, 2013
If Vice President Garret Hobart hadn’t died in office, we might have ended up with a very different country than we did. And Mount Rushmore would have looked wildly different. President William McKinley was forced to choose another running mate for his ticket in the 1901 election. After President McKinley took an assassin’s bullet six months into his second term, his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York (and incidentally the uncle of future First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt) assumed the presidency. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hungry and The Dead in New York
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Bob and I had one more piece of business to attend to before leaving New Jersey and heading back into the state of New York, where, with one brief international exception, we’d be spending the rest of trip before driving back to my house. Naturally, that one piece of business on the morning of Saturday, June 1, 2013, was breakfast. We left our Howard Johnson hotel in Newark and headed to Jersey City for dining at the Brownstone Diner. Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine…Two Yankees in New York
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Considering our late night the night before, Bob and I managed to get up relatively early, get ready and head out for our second day in New York City, on the morning of Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Readers of this blog will already have some idea of the types of things that were on our radars for the day. Needless to say there are lots and lots of things to do in New York City, but most of the things I was focusing on during this first visit had to do with either the entertainment industry or Presidential/historical sites. And a little bit of sports I suppose. It was just a bit after 8am as we began our day, heading from our hotel on 46th street toward the subway stop on 42nd street, Bob opting to stop at McDonalds for a quick breakfast on the way. Read the rest of this entry »