For a day that was supposed to be less walking than yesterday we sure covered some ground. We headed off to Harlem first thing this morning and traced the movement of African Americans from the lower east side up to the northern part of Manhattan. So many signs of growth, then decay, and now a rebuilding could be seen. We finished our morning tour at the Schomburg Center with a wonderful display of the Obama presidency. Lunch was at Miss Maude's where we got to experience real southern food from southern fried chicken that was out of this world, to collard greens, cat fish, corn bread and finished it all off with peach cobbler. I could barely walk to the subway stop to make our connection to Central Park. Ed provided much information about the various sights throughout the mid section of the park. Because the park is so large and we were running out of time and steam some of us took a cab to our final museum of the day the Museum of the City of New York. A most pleasant lady who coincidentally taught at Husson College in Bangor gave us a most informative tour of "The Grid' which traced the planning and development of the island of Manhattan.
From there five of us hurried down to Time Square and TKTS booth. We arrived with minutes to spare before they closed but were able to get tickets to our first choice, War Horse. We then rushed off to Lincoln Center and saw a moving play with life size horse, duck and bird puppets set during the First World War. Just breath taking. Well worth all the rush and certainly the highlight of our free time in New York.
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