Allaire State Park - Re-enactment of vote of 1836
Yesterday we had the fun of visiting Allaire State Park in Farmingdale, New Jersey, including the historic village and the train ride. The historic village featured Election Day 1836 – should women get the vote? The man without a hat was arguing with the women suffragettes to his right that that was a ridiculous notion.
The actors played their roles with great oomph and and in an impromptu fashion – they talked directly to the audience (there was no stage, and we were part of the show). The boy on the right was handing out blue ballots for his party, and he handed them only to the men in our party (my husband and a friend), but not to the women. I joked that I could influence my husband’s vote by telling him for whom to vote. My daughter and her friend, however, wanted the pink ballot party to win, no matter what the agenda, so they kept sneaking into the building to cast ballots for the pink party. They succeeded once or twice, but they also got caught and got a good “scolding” – all in good fun.
I wasn’t allowed to photograph the insides of the Allaire Village buildings – too bad, there was a lot of good history. We took the short train ride near the village at the end of our day. I’ll post the train another day, but here’s a great ghoulish guy at the train stop. He’s just there around Halloween time, have no fear.
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Welcome back to another round of What Do You See? Here is a drawing my daughter did on Thursday, and with her permission, I ask you, what’s in the drawing?
Can someone remind me to put this “sukkah decoration” in JPIX, the Jewish Photobloggers Blog Carnival?
And I’ve started to put up some posts on my new tech blog, such as this one on 6 Ways to Learn jQuery. Please send your technically-oriented or small business minded friends (or yourself, if you wish to be) to my posts. In general, I’m looking for topic ideas for that blog. I tend to be a perfectionist about what I post, so you may not see me posting often in the beginning, but I’m hoping inspiration will allow me to post at least once a week.
About to go on a little journey by horse around Cold Springs Historic Village
Can you think of any famous journeys? I asked some friends, and we came up with these:
Journey of the Children of Israel from Egypt through the desert to the Land of Israel
Travels of Christopher Columbus
Explorations of Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Lewis and Clark
Donner Party
The band Journey
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
Man’s travel to the Moon
Other space expeditions, like the tragic Challenger trip
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Exodus by Leon Uris
Marco Polo, Jacques Cartier, Vasco de Gama, Captain Cook
Commute to New York City every day
Odysseus, Jason
Hegira, the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D
Byrd, Peary, Scott and Amundsen: journey to the Poles
Laura Ingalls Wilder – journey through the places she lived in the U.S.
Dorothy’s journey to Oz (and back to Kansas)
Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys in Middle Earth
Finding parking in New Brunswick, New Jersey
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
After 1948 many Jews fled Muslim countries – most went to Israel, some to France and to the U.S.
Journey of the 12 spies into the Land of Canaan/Israel
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
Pilgrims travel to America (as did later many others from Europe and elsewhere)
Lady Godiva’s 11th century ride through Coventry to protest her husband’s excessive taxation of his subjects
In this week’s parsha of Lech Lecha, God tells Avram (he is not yet Avraham) to go forth from the land of his birth and travel to another land. According to the commentator Rashi, one is liable to lose three things by journeying: a trip can inhibit the birth of children, decrease one’s wealth and lessen one’s fame (lose one’s reputation). So God blesses Avram accordingly so he will have many children, wealth and he will become a great nation (fame).
So do any of the famous journeys we mention fit into the three categories mentioned by Rashi? As a loss or as a gain? Can you think of any other well-known journeys? Do people lose children, wealth or reputation on these journeys? Or do they gain them?
Woven and embroidered cloth at Cold Springs Historic Village, Cape May
At Cold Spring Historic Village in Cape May, New Jersey, you can watch women spin wool and weave cloth.
