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| Beer: Making life tolerable for generations of immigrants (across the street from the museum) |
maybe wishing to sow a
pocketful of dreams
Mom really wanted to go to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. I offered to show her around my building for free, but apparently she wanted to see a "real" tenement, so she booked us tickets on the tour of garment workers' apartments. Longtime readers will know of my tenuous relationship with museums, but I'm happy to report that this one was really fascinating, and our tour guide was great. Also interesting to note how some things (housing and labor laws, immigrants' countries of origin) have changed, and how other things (human nature, corruption, hope of a better life for one's children) haven't.
And they had a good gift shop!
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