Monday, February 06, 2006

Superbowl censors

Still on Unemployment having been fired for having a blog from Dewberry (or the MTA, the Parks Dept., Landmarks, the construction contractor?). We found the remains of the earlier "batteries" in Battery Park at the foot of Broadway, where the tourists get on the boat to see the Statue of Liberty also where my grandmother Margaret Gregory married to Joseph Myers was once a "Scottish nanny" to the caretaker out there on Bedloe's Island (which is a renaming there never was a well never mind) Dad used to say they used to call her "Bedloe's Nanny" when I think she was 16 she worked out there watching after the caretakers kids. It's the first electrically lit lighthouse in the United States also the Statue of Liberty 1886 (?) or so. Just before 9/11/01 a French parasailer, trying to get a unique photo session with "Bedloe's Liberty" which was given by the French the base finally built after much newspaper brow-beating (Joseph Myers worked in real estate reporting) and got tangled up in the torch! It was restored to its gold leaf (scaffolding all over it for a number of years) beauty for free by the French. The NY police I think climbed up and untangled the photographer / adventurer / flyer from the torch. The first flight school in the US, was on nearby Governors Island run by Wilbur Wright for the Army, launched by catapult. He took off there once and flew up and down the Hudson River some say with a canoe tied to the bottom of a Wright Flyer. It was the cover of the Daily News the day or two before the 9/11/01 attack. Guy jumped off the Empire State Building, 21, 66th floor or so, yesterday or so, tomorrow, the annual run-up its stairs to the top race. I was up there once with Don, later the Twin Towers, after a Bernadette Peters "spot" on the radio one lunch hour. My friend worked for a company on the 90-95th floor, Envirosphere (in one office) part of the Texas power plant builders EBASCO on the five floors until they moved out to New Jersey. I worked for them in archaeological clearance of Fort Drum, NY where many of our Army troops are now permanently and shipped from there as the 10th Mountain Division (formerly of Camp Hale, CO) overseas. I was all over the 110,000 acres one fall digging tests with two three women, a Ford Bronco, and Joe, a professor now of archaeology at New Paltz, NY. His Mom saw Jimi Jam Hendrix and a Janis Joplin look-alike in house she was showing way back in 1968 near Woodstock, NY they thought no one would show up at. I thought I saw him in a cafe in Woodstock that summer working in Timber Lake Camp, near Phoenicia, NY. Guess it was! Bob Dylan and the "Big Pink" the Band were there that summer too.

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