Manhattan, NYC

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Display of the "below the deck" area of the Godspeed in the Jamestown Experience pavilion as part of the 400th Anniversary of America festivities at the South Street Seaport in NY during 4th of July weekend, 2006. Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text from the second paragraph on is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ (ship) For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Display of the "below the deck" area of the Godspeed in the Jamestown Experience pavilion as part of the 400th Anniversary of America festivities at the South Street Seaport in NY during 4th of July weekend, 2006. Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English East India Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All the colonists she carried on that voyage were male. The 40-ton Godspeed is estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Replicas of the Godspeed and her sisters in the 1607 voyage, the larger Susan Constant and the smaller Discovery, are docked in the James River at Jamestown Settlement (formerly Jamestown Festival Park), adjacent to the Jamestown National Historic Site. The text from the second paragraph on is from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_ (ship) For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Display of Native American artifacts that would have been used by Powhaten's tribe in the Jamestown Experience pavilion as part of the 400th Anniversary of America festivities at the South Street Seaport in NY during 4th of July weekend, 2006. For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

An 18th century "Cooper" (barrel-maker) from Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia demonstrating his trade as part of the 400th Anniversary of America festivities at the South Street Seaport in NY during 4th of July weekend, 2006. For more information about the 400th Anniversary Celebration and Godspeed Sail in New York: www.americas400thanniversary.org/godspeedsail-newyork.cfm

Heartland Brewery at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, NY, has a variety of painted posters hanging on their brick exterior. This one caught my eye especially because my brother-in-law's name is "Jon." :)

Hunter College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as simply Hunter College) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter, apart from being the largest of the CUNY colleges, is one of the oldest public colleges in the United States. It is also one of the country's most diverse schools; Hunter has students hailing from 84 countries and speaking approximately 40 languages. The college is particularly noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing, and social work. Hunter College has its origins in the nineteenth-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School (later renamed the Normal College of the City of New York), organized in New York City in 1870. Founded by Irish immigrant Thomas Hunter, who was president of the school during the first 37 years, it was originally an all-female school for training teachers. The school, which was housed in an armory and saddle store at Broadway and East Fourth Street in Manhattan, was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background, which was incongruent to the prevailing admission practices of other schools during this era. Created by the New York State Legislature, Hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach in New York City during this time. The school incorporated an elementary and high school for gifted children, where students practiced teaching. In 1887, a kindergarten was established as well. (Today, the elementary school and the high school still exist at a different location, and are now called the Hunter Campus Schools.) During Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school, Hunter became known for its impartiality regarding race, religion, ethnicity, financial or political favoritism; its pursuit of higher education for women; its high entry requirements; and its rigorous academics. The college's student population quickly expanded, and the college subsequently moved uptown, into a new Gothic structure, now known as Thomas Hunter Hall, on Lexington Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets. In 1888 the school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, with the power to confer the degree of A.B. This led to the separation of the school into two "camps": the "Normals," who pursued a four-year course of study to become licensed teachers, and the "Academics," who sought non-teaching professions and the Bachelor of Arts degree. After 1902 when the "Normal" course of study was abolished, the "Academic" course became standard across the student body. In 1914 the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with City College's Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form Brooklyn College. The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the United States Navy who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES. When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated a town house at 47-49 East 65th Street in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the future President and First Lady. Today it is known as Roosevelt House and is undergoing renovation to become an

Hunter College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as simply Hunter College) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter, apart from being the largest of the CUNY colleges, is one of the oldest public colleges in the United States. It is also one of the country's most diverse schools; Hunter has students hailing from 84 countries and speaking approximately 40 languages. The college is particularly noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing, and social work. Hunter College has its origins in the nineteenth-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School (later renamed the Normal College of the City of New York), organized in New York City in 1870. Founded by Irish immigrant Thomas Hunter, who was president of the school during the first 37 years, it was originally an all-female school for training teachers. The school, which was housed in an armory and saddle store at Broadway and East Fourth Street in Manhattan, was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background, which was incongruent to the prevailing admission practices of other schools during this era. Created by the New York State Legislature, Hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach in New York City during this time. The school incorporated an elementary and high school for gifted children, where students practiced teaching. In 1887, a kindergarten was established as well. (Today, the elementary school and the high school still exist at a different location, and are now called the Hunter Campus Schools.) During Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school, Hunter became known for its impartiality regarding race, religion, ethnicity, financial or political favoritism; its pursuit of higher education for women; its high entry requirements; and its rigorous academics. The college's student population quickly expanded, and the college subsequently moved uptown, into a new Gothic structure, now known as Thomas Hunter Hall, on Lexington Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets. In 1888 the school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, with the power to confer the degree of A.B. This led to the separation of the school into two "camps": the "Normals," who pursued a four-year course of study to become licensed teachers, and the "Academics," who sought non-teaching professions and the Bachelor of Arts degree. After 1902 when the "Normal" course of study was abolished, the "Academic" course became standard across the student body. In 1914 the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with City College's Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form Brooklyn College. The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the United States Navy who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES. When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated a town house at 47-49 East 65th Street in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the future President and First Lady. Today it is known as Roosevelt House and is undergoing renovation to become an

Architectural details above the doorway to the Ukranian Institute of America, located in a historic mansion on E. 79th St. and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, NY. From their web site: The fundamental purpose of the Ukrainian Institute of America is to develop, sponsor and promote through educational, professional and social activities a greater awareness, understanding, knowledge and appreciation in the United States of the traditional and contemporary art, literature, music, culture, history and traditions of Ukraine, as revealed through its people, both in Ukraine and abroad. The Ukrainian Institute of America strives to strengthen the identity and community of individuals of Ukrainian descent by organizing and sponsoring exhibits, concerts, conferences, symposia and other educational, scholarship and professional activities. About the Institute Nestled in the midst of "Museum Mile", which includes the Guggenheim Museum and the Frick Collection, and diagonally across from the Metropolitan Museum on the southeast corner of 79th Street and 5th Avenue, is one of the most magnificent and regal turn-of-the-century mansions in New York City today. This French Renaissance style structure houses the jewel of the Ukrainian community: the Ukrainian Institute of America. The history of the acquisition of the mansion by Mr. William Dzus, the founder of the Ukrainian Institute of America, dates back to 1898 when Isaac Fletcher, a banker and railroad investor, commissioned the famous architect C.P.H. Gilbert to build a house using William K. Vanderbilt's neo-Loire Valley chateau as its model, on the property which was originally the Lenox farm. Mr. Fletcher was so pleased with his new home that he hired Jean Francois Raffaelli to paint a portrait of it; the painting, the mansion and the Fletcher's extensive art collection were all eventually bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917. Harry F. Sinclair, the founder of the Sinclair Oil Company, purchased the Fletcher Mansion in 1920 and sold it in 1930 to Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr., a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. A bachelor and recluse, Augustus Stuyvesant occupied the mansion with his unmarried sister until her death in 1938, then lived out the remaining years of his life until 1953 with just his butler and footman to serve him. William Dzus, inventor and owner of the Dzus Fastener Company in West Islip, Long Island, New York founded the Ukrainian Institute of America, Inc. in 1948, for the purpose of promoting Ukrainian art, culture, music, and literature. At that time, the Ukrainian Institute was located in the Parkwood mansion in West Islip, Long Island. The increasing membership and growth of the Institute prompted Mr. Dzus to search for a larger facility; he authorized the treasurer of the Dzus Fastener Company, Francis Clarke, to look for new, larger quarters in New York City. The capacious Fletcher Mansion with its prestigious address and unique architectural style, was perfectly suited for the Ukrainian Institute and in 1955, the mansion was purchased by the Ukrainian Insitute of America corporation with with the charitable generosity and support of Mr. Dzus. In June of 1962 the mortgage was paid off and subsequently the Ukrainian Institute of America attained landmark status. The Ukrainian Institute takes great pride in the fact that almost 50 years after moving into its new home at 2 East 79th Street, William Dzus' dreams and aspirations are still very much alive and thriving. Boasting a membership of over 400 people, some of the events sponsored by the Institute in the last year were: the Les Kurbas Theater performing a memorable apocrypha based on the writings of Lesia Ukrainka; a scholarly conference on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Mr. Hrushevsky's birth; a seminar with Adrian Karatnycky, President of the Freedom House, on "Ukraine, the United States and Russia"; commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster with an exhibit of photos, paintings and videos; and a business conference