Ferry ride to Atlantic Highlands, NJ from Manhattan

Ferry Boats operate between Manhattan and the Atlantic Highlands. I took a boat from the 35th St. and FDR for a day trip to visit a French friend who settled donw in US.
Another stop for the boat in Manhattan is Pier 11 at Wall St.

Close ups of the downtown Manhattan buildings
Miss Liberty
Sand beach in the National Park in the Atlantic Highlands
The view from the highest point between the coast of Maine and Yucatan Peninsula on the Atlantic seaboard.
Henry Hudson the explorer found springs here.

Well, I don't know how many people are intetested in this historic spot now except a French emigre to N. J. and his Japanese friend. . . . Look at these summer grasses. . . . Obviously, locals don't care much about their heritage from the Colonial past.

A Japanese corner in the garden
Patrick and his partner keep beautiful flowers and fruits in their garden. I enjoyed the scenery, intellectually stimulating conversations, and good food. French people know how to enjoy life, indeed!

"Richard Sierra Sculpture: Forty Years" at MOMA

The special exhibition I visited at MOMA on Monday, Aug. 27th. Sierra's large sculpture was exhibited in the inner garden. It was fun walking through it. Amazing how surrounding scenery looked different from usual with this one art work. Here are some photos with the sculpture.








The new MOMA with huge exhibition rooms can now house gigantic art works. The sculpture displayed in the garden is a part of Sierra's works exhibited this summer inside the museum. Also inside, visitors could not just watch but experience his works by touching and walking through them. Such physical experiences challenge viewers' perspectives optically as well as psychologically. Every time I vist MOMA, I can experience something new.

Restaurant with a view in New York -- The Columbus Circle

It is always nice to visit restaurants in New York City. Here are my favorite restaurants with good views in the Columbus Circle.Asako, S, Kumiko at "Jean Georges," 1 Central Park West (Trump International). Central Park is right in front.
salad

Here is another good restaurant in this neighborhood: "Asiate" on the 35th floor, Mandarin Oriental is a French and Japanese restaurant. The view is wonderful although it is slightly obstacled by the Trump International.

chef's selection obento

Unitarian Universalist, First Parish, Cambridge

It was awfully humid during the service on Sunday, August 26th, 2007. This Unitaran church does not have ornaments much inside. There is a simple beauty in the sanctuary.

People I got together in Cambridge/Boston, Part II

Rei
Yumi, Rei, Yoshi at the "Red House"
Nina, Jeanie at Jeanie & Jim's
Prof Takanashi at the Widener to the "Spice"

The Divinity School Library

The Divinity School Archives hold a good Unitarian collection. I spent this afternoon going through William Ellery Channing papers. It was amusing to look at his letters to Elizabeth Parmer Peabody. -- Most of his letters are short. E. P. P must have sent many long letters to the minister she adored.

Daughters of The Puritans

Louisa May Alcott
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Dorothy Lynde Dix
Mary Lowell Ware
Lydia Maria Child










Seth Curtis Beach, Daughters of the Puritans (Cambridge, U. S. A.: The Universty Press, 1905).






It is such a quaint book with a beautiful cover as it's shown on the photo. Curtis includes the following writers as the "daughters of the Puritans": Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789-1867; Mary Lovell Ware, 1798-1849; Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880; Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887; Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1810-1850; Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896; Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888.






Catharine Maria Sedwick