this is the kind of place school kids here get taken for the day. a packed lunch eaten on the bus on the way there, hunger pains distracting you all afternoon.
it is also the first factory anywhere ever.
when this dark satanic mill was built (1771) there were farms and there were pits and there was the very beginnings of empire and slavery tied in to sugar (whence we get our own dear Tate Galleries). but not yet. and in england something called 'bonded servitude' (slavery by another name). on the farms a system still prevalent in other parts of the...
Its summer time again, so welcome back to Governor's Island! With the approval of the redesign plans for the island, things are starting to happen for the islands long term potential. But in the very short term, there's going to...