Rowing The Atlantic

Day 66, evening. I am glad this day’s rowing is done and I soon will have supper! The N-going current that sent us straight N is spite of wind from W was there for many hours, creating complete havoc to the seas. My sore right bum did not like it all the rolling at all!...

July 20

1848 – The first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car. 1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world’s first elected female...
Apollo 11 on the Moon

Letters

To the editor: Is the purpose of improving South End Avenue for the residential community or is it to expand the tourist community? For the residents, we can buy out Gristedes and get a quality supermarket- Trader Joes. We can have stricter signage prohibiting tourist buses from standing or parking on the avenue. We just...

Summer Cinema

Five separate free movie programs (four outdoors and one offering air conditioned comfort indoors) are within easy reach of Lower Manhattan residents this summer. The Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT) is presenting two separate RiverFlicks programs. Pier 63 (near West 23rd Street) will host Big Hit Wednesdays, with films appropriate for adults and teens, at...
The Hudson River Park's RiverFlicks program, which screens films outdoors at twilight, is just one of five free movie series available to Lower Manhattan residents this summer.

Rowing The Atlantic

The morning’s bliss lasted til noon, by then it was overcast, wind increasing from SSE and I had to give up rowing and put out the sea anchor… But I did have 24 calm, beautiful hours. Last night when celebrating halfway with the Proseco there was a calm, undulating sea reflecting the nearly full moon...

July 19

1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne. 1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. She...