Scotsman.com News - Features - Tull's Anderson in tune with his Scottish roots

I remember hearing Ian Anderson on the radio just before 9/11/2001 here in New York City. He was playing at Sailor's Snug Harbor I think, on Staten Island (the once secessionist borough, though after 11 NJ officials, three mayors arrested, they may think otherwise, wouldn't want to lose "The Red Spot" and the Cadillac bars in St. George) and just for the record, I think "Savoy Brown" (partly a/k/a/ "Fog Hat") may have been the "last" to play in the Atrium, at a lunch hour concert at the World Trade Center. My grandfather, a Merchant Mariner, used to tell a joke about Henry Hudson sailing into what's New York harbor now, on the Dutch ship "Halve Moon," and looking over the side, saying "Is stat an island?" and the mate wrote down, "Staten Island," ha ha. Interestingly, when historians look at it, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain ("French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Québec (1567-1635)" Word Web) came within a hundred miles of each other one day as one sailed north and the other marched south. One of Champlain's crew dropped an astrolabe and years later a New York farmer found it and for many years it sat in the New York Historical Society. Then at the end of the 1970's it was given to Canada, as reported by their Geographical Society, on its cover. I'm not sure if Betsy Gottbaum, the current NYC Public Advocate was responsible for that, she once the historical director.