A Visiting School from Singapore
This photograph shows the group posing before the Croton Fountain in City Hall Park, holding their banner celebrating their visit to Boston and New York on their Mathematics Educational Trip.
I met the group earlier down in Battery Park - just as I could meet any group almost anywhere they might choose to enter New York - but it certainly didn't look promising!
Yet, as we look down the Dewey Promenade, along the shoreline of Battery Park, perhaps we can appreciate a little the feeling that Herman Melville had when he wrote:
"Circumabulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. ... What do you see? Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries." ("Moby Dick," Chapter One, 3rd paragraph)
Well, it was indeed raining that afternoon - and not thousands of "silent sentinels" there that afternoon either!
But as on virtually every day, visitors to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island had come, and were now returning. My group was on this boat - and I awaited them for our tour through downtown and the 9/11 Memorial.
If you should come to New York, individually or with a group large or small, arrangements can be made for many excursions - and a visit to the Statue and Ellis Island are often on one's list.
And then there are visits to restaurants - and this group was no different. On the eve of their return home they enjoyed the generous servings and friendly hospitality of Carmine's at 2450 Broadway, on the Upper West Side:
I am looking forward to more from Singapore next month! -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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