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At the end of our wander through lower Manhattan, we stopped at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn was the site of one of the most significant events in LGBTQ+ history, “The Stonewall Riots” of June 1969. Stonewall wasn’t a unique riot. There had been other riots, such as the Black Cat riots in Los
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Our first full day in the US was marked by a visit to the Statue of Liberty. The sheer grandeur of the statue, which I had only seen from a distance before, was an impressive sight from Liberty Island itself. The island was bustling with visitors from all corners of the globe, a living testament
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I can’t help feeling a little anxious about the trip. I woke up this morning almost wishing that I didn’t have to go. I often get that feeling on the eve of a big trip. As I went into town I felt a wave of nostalgia, thinking this is the last time I will see
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Less than two days until our departure. Packing is almost complete. I remember surprising little about my actual journey to New York in 1984. I’d booked the ticket through STA the student travel agency. It was a flight on El Al from Heathrow to JFK. I do remember my first exposure on the flight to
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I’ve been reading Dan Edelstein’s On the Sprit of Rights. The history of ideas isn’t really ‘my thing’ but I found some parts of this book quite intriguing. Edelstein’s focus is on the origins of the modern concept of Human Rights, and the book discusses the philoophical and intellectual origins of the concept of rights
Early American Musings 