May 7 Clean up and goodbye to Q4 Speeches at Bryant Park Talk with Chelsea MacMillan Interfaith minister and climate activist Depart from Grand Central Station to New Haven on Metro North Today has not yet ended But the gift and privilege I have Been handed Has made my thoughts extended People’s faith in humanity...Read More

May 6th Speeches at St. John the Devine Lunch in Central Park Meet with Jamal Joseph at IMPACT Theater Great Migration Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum Dinner at Hunter’s Point with Singer / Songwriter / Historian Tom Shaner Speeches on the peer at Hunter’s Point Jamal [Joseph] smiled the entire time, no matter what he was...Read More

May 5th – Stonewall Inn LGBTQ history scavenger hunt in the West Village The Center with Michael and Enrike Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Ave., Brooklyn Dinner at the Fulton Street Food Court While we were at [the Stonewall Monument] park [in the West Village] we had a scavenger hunt that was so enthralling it...Read More

Thursday – May 4th Sugar Hill Creamery with Petruschka Bazin Larsen Lunch in Harlem Walk through Bryant Park New York Bar Association with Maria Cilente Dinner at Desi Galli with Zoe Timms and Pria Vanda Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ on Broadway, Music Box Theater At Sugar Hill Creamery, the work that was being done for the...Read More

Wednesday – May 3 Tenement Museum Walking tour of LES Drawing in Tompkins Square Park Nuyorican Poets Cafe and met and wrote with Claudia (CAP) Walk to Chinatown Dinner at Mott Street Eatery Staten Island Ferry ride – At the Tenement Museum, on our tour, there were so many unexplained things, Why were Dora the...Read More

Tuesday, May 2nd: Meet with Mickey Melendez at People’s Church Walk w/ Mickey to Museum of the City of New York Lunch w/ Mickey at El Nuevo Caribeño Fire Lotus Temple with Sensei Hojin Kimmel Speeches in Prospect Park Dinner and dance party with Taj Campman at Friends and Lovers Why don’t people here smile...Read More

Monday, May 1st Leave Hilltop Depart from New Haven on Metro North Check in – Q4 Hostel in Queens Meet with Linda Machuca at La Hueca Manabita Dinner at La Hueca Manabita Fun in Flushing Meadows Park – Speeches Retire to Q4 When I go to a city or a place with a lot of...Read More

We are getting ready for our great journey. Stay tuned for daily updates on our adventures. Binding journals for our journey We prepare our materials Aiden presents on places we are going to visit Isabel presents on places we are going to visit Copy-of-Story-of-American-Resilience-Odyssey-Itinerary-student_parent-version-2023DownloadRead More

We are on Odyssey, running full and sometimes a bit raw. Pushing to understand the building blocks of spirit, the quiet intangibility of faith, the communities that move so many of us. We are reminded of how important this kind of journey is, how it is an essential part of of how we, the middle...Read More