Day 6 – May 7 :30 – Breakfast @ BB 8:15-ish departure Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, dialogue with Swami Tagyananda Burritos in Charlesgate Park  Muddy River Walk w/ Lisa Kumf Society of Saint John the Evangelist, dialogue Brother Jack and Brother Lane Dinner @ Harvard Square 8:30 – 9:00 Compline @ Saint John the Evangelist Retire...Read More

May 6 – Day 5 Drive to Center for the Study of World Religions Dialogue with Nicole and Carina of the Pluralism Project Lunch @ Harvard Square Auschwitz Exposition: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away Trinity Church Dinner @ American Flatbread Retire to BB I was really excited to hear what [graduate students] Nicole and...Read More

May 3 – Day 2 10:30- Islamic Society of Boston Lunch @ Islamic Society 1-1:45 Sermon @ Islamic Society  4:30 – 5:30 – Temple Israel of Boston, with Rabbi Zecher 6:00 – Shabbat service  7:30-ish – Dinner @ Zaftigs Deli Retire to BB Witnessing the prayers and the sermon [at the Islamic Society of Boston...Read More

Happy New Year! We are all back, though you won’t have seen me in person this week. I’m quarantined with COVID (my first time having it!), but am very much working on school projects. The staff had a great In-Service day meeting on Monday, including a lively discussion about “choice” in the Montessori classroom. We...Read More

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

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