Reply #50: still remember my only visit at the end of summer in 1961

[bobbieinok]

I was returning to OK from a summer at Middlebury Summer Language School and stayed in NYC and DC with families of college friends.

I was fortunate to have as a 'tour guide' the male cousin of a college friend. He loved the city and wanted me to love it too.

High-points--

--Greenwich Village and a soap box speaker at Washington Square (?)

--Staten Island Ferry ride

--walk through Wall Street on Sunday morning; no one was there

--seeing Midsummer's Night Dream in Central Park

--visiting the Cloisters museum

--visits to bookstores (one gigantic one that is no longer in business)

--walking somewhere and running into another friend from college (there was some sort of saying then 'eventually you'll see everyone you know in NYC')

--the Guggenheim

--the steps of the NYC library

--the museum with the dinosaurs

--trip to the top of the Empire State Building

--going into some churches

--riding busses and subways