Amy and I visited the Marine Corps Museum near Quantico, Virginia today. It was really cool. The immersive multi-media was amazing.
When Amy and I went to a wedding near Woodstock, NY a few weekends ago, we stumbled across a Congregation B’nai Israel enclave in Fleischmanns, NY. We were driving around, looking at the old buildings and drove straight into a seemingly modern orthodox Jewish community. There were around 100 or more people walking around in orthodox garb on the Sabbath. I didn't take any pictures of the people because it would probably come off as rude; though it did seem strange to be driving around in a rural setting and run across people all dressed similarly. I did manage to take a few pictures of the now-defunct freight building that was a part of the town's railroad station. Here is the Wikipedia entry for Fleischmanns.
I really like reading about Ben Franklin. I have read his autobiography twice and two biographies; granted, they were for history classes at university--but I loved them none-the-less. Since I was in the company of a bunch of New York Times correspondents over the weekend, I thought I would put a little NYT love on the blog. This is a great and artistic article by Maira Kalman.
