A Day Of Folk Art, Central Park, Civil Discourse, And More

We were prepared to spend a couple hours at the American Folk Art Museum, on Columbus Ave. and 66th St., but it turned out to be much smaller than expected, and we were done within an hour. We spent the rest of the afternoon looking at a number of buildings in the area (next post), and then walking through Central Park, and beyond, to our next appointment, at the 92nd St. Y.

Beautiful quilt at the American Folk Arts Museum

To create the unusual visual effect, the maker utilized some 13,000

pieces of silk... 

1790 chest

Midway display

A whole wall and more of home-made parchesi boards

Now crossing Central Park; thinking of the boating scene from 
The Producers

Tall skinnies reflected in the lake

View to the northeast

Belvedere Castle

Polish king statue: King Jagiello, celebrating his victory
at the Battle of Grunewald, 1410; left over from the 1939
World Fair in NYC..."winter for Poland and France..."

Central Park obelisk, a gift from Napoleon, 1799...wait...no...

Statue of Hamilton, may be moved to Broadway...

So we were getting close to the Met, east side of the
Park, when we began noticing a pretty overwhelming
police presence, streets closed off (including 5th Ave.);
turns out President Biden was hosting a reception for
world leaders at the Met--the UN is in general session--
and there was about as much security as the world can
muster

Including a mounted light brigade just in case a charge was needed

Eventually we got to the 92nd Street Y (...MCA...), a pretty
famous civic/cultural destination

Daughter Rebecca had bought us tickets to the "conversation" with
Ken Burns and Sharon McMahon, concerning her new book...

An hour-long public chat on topics of great interest; Sharon McMahon
was new to us, but Ken Burns is of our vintage and one of the beacons
of our generation...

So nice to be in a crowd of people who have an interest in democracy
and civility...and who know American and world history inside and out...
thanks, Rebecca!