The Boy - and I must say, it is increasingly hard these days to refer to my son as "The Boy," given his size and adult status - and I are heading into Manhattan today for our traditional outing to the New York Historical Society. We both love this museum and usually try to carve out time to visit it together at least once a year.
The Historical Society went through a major overhall this year and we haven't been back since it has reopened. I'm clearly getting old and cranky, because I haven't even been there yet, and I'm already thinking how much I liked the old historical society. It was very managable - the exhibits small and discreet; the permanent collection waiting for us like patient friends. You could easily do the whole museum in a few hours.
Now there are multiple new shows up. We are definitely going to "Revolution! The Atlantic Reborn", which looks at the American, French and Hatian revolutions as a single global narrative. The Boy tells me he took a class on this at college. There are two photography shows - one on the struggle for civil rights, the other on 9/11 - which we want to take in. There's an exhibit on the legend of Santa Claus that claims he's a New Yorker (well, at least Clement Moore was) and much more.
I have a kazillion things to do, both book and home related, and The Boy would no doubt prefer to sleep late and chill all day, but tradition is tradition. And chances are we will have a pretty good time.
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