Tomorrow I'm heading to the Botanical Garden with my parents for the last weekend of the train show they hold every year. We've been once before as a family and really enjoyed it. The trains are cute and nice to watch going around, but the real attractions are the incredibly detailed replications of iconic New York buildings made entirely from plant materials!
We're talking Macy's, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, TWA terminal at JFK, etc, all exact down to the smallest detail. They even have replicas of famous landmarks that have sadly been torn down like the old Penn Station and a few of the magnates NYC homes like the Vanderbilt mansion. (Side note, the amazing iron gates at the Conservatory Garden in Central Park at 105th St are the ones from that mansion.)
Family may stress me out, but the history and classic architecture of New York excites me. The Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society have had fantastic exhibits that gave you a window into the planning, past and present, that have led to the current city. If being a museum curator/archivist/docent didn't pay little to nothing I would have considered that as a career.
As it is, when I was in grad school I got to archive and index all of the historical pictures of their library school as part of my research assistant job. When I worked for a nursing journal I did the same for their archives which were in large boxes containing some materials dating back 100 years! I also relocated that collection to a university with a nursing library so it could be properly maintained, since I knew when I left it was almost a certainty that it would be "lost" (aka thrown out) somewhere along the way. That's something I'm very proud of to this day even though I did that eleven years ago.
In short, I love history and I regret that it is such a low-paying field since otherwise I might have entered it. But I really need to revive that interest, read more outside my job, and keep that intellectual side alive since, as I learned by losing the ability to play viola, if you don't use it you really do lose it.
So tomorrow I'll get to revisit one of the more creative historic exhibits that the city has to offer and it should be a good day to take in more NYC trivia.
We're talking Macy's, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, TWA terminal at JFK, etc, all exact down to the smallest detail. They even have replicas of famous landmarks that have sadly been torn down like the old Penn Station and a few of the magnates NYC homes like the Vanderbilt mansion. (Side note, the amazing iron gates at the Conservatory Garden in Central Park at 105th St are the ones from that mansion.)
Family may stress me out, but the history and classic architecture of New York excites me. The Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society have had fantastic exhibits that gave you a window into the planning, past and present, that have led to the current city. If being a museum curator/archivist/docent didn't pay little to nothing I would have considered that as a career.
As it is, when I was in grad school I got to archive and index all of the historical pictures of their library school as part of my research assistant job. When I worked for a nursing journal I did the same for their archives which were in large boxes containing some materials dating back 100 years! I also relocated that collection to a university with a nursing library so it could be properly maintained, since I knew when I left it was almost a certainty that it would be "lost" (aka thrown out) somewhere along the way. That's something I'm very proud of to this day even though I did that eleven years ago.
In short, I love history and I regret that it is such a low-paying field since otherwise I might have entered it. But I really need to revive that interest, read more outside my job, and keep that intellectual side alive since, as I learned by losing the ability to play viola, if you don't use it you really do lose it.
So tomorrow I'll get to revisit one of the more creative historic exhibits that the city has to offer and it should be a good day to take in more NYC trivia.
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