9-11

What happen to you 10 years ago? Will you remember where you were and what were you doing? No? What if I tell you that was the day of 9/11 of year 2001? I am sure now you can recall it. Not only in the USA, but across the World, people know about World Trade Center and what happened here. That is why a newly opened 9/11 Memorial is on our list.

Chicago

Chicago! The place where winds blow, where the river flows back, where sky-scrapers fly up high, where Obama and Oprah had found success, where people stop to help the same minute confusion first appears on your face. We loved it there! Every bit of it! And if you go, make sure you avoid our mistake and spend there at least a week… Here are some of the high lights we couldn’t fit in any particular topic, but we felt obliged to share.

Meet the MIT

Digits. A few tones of digits we got ourselves surrounded with just outside of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Monument in a shape of a thinking man contains lots of dear to a technology student’s heart characters. With one of those students we have met today.

Ford's Emerald city

“I’ve been working at Ford Rouge Factory longer then Mr. Henry Ford himself!” proudly announces Hank Sawer, who is guiding us through the factory at Dearborn, Michigan today. Since his very first day at the factory in 1973 our hero had managed to work at the most of 250 stages of a famous Ford-conveyer. Now he is retired, but still here as a guide on a green-roof station of our tour. Yes-yes! You’ve read it right! This factory looks just like an Emerald city – walls with a climbing up green screen, roofs are covered with a sedum grass. The last one grows on 4 special layers, all year around letting the insides of the buildings stay 10 degrees cooler at summer and same 10 degrees warmer in winter. Plus this kind of cover preserves the roof itself and it lasts instead of regular 20 years, for long, good 45. There are also a number of solar panels which do safe about 12% of energy placed all around the factory. This is how a modern and trendy eco-wave in the World affects the production here.

“Magic Trash” at Heidelberg Street

When you travel to a city there is list of things formed in your minds to expect. It could be a particular museum, a famous skyscraper, a walk on a bridge, a concert in the end! But once in a while you get surprised. You find something really special by accident. This time it was a Heidelberg street art project in Detroit.

You will fall for Niagara Falls!

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Rockwell rocks

An order to draw a pile of Christmas cards is the first paid job 15-year-old Norman got from his neighbor. Soon after that young Rockwell had realized what was a true passion of his life. He dropped from school for National Academy of Design in New York. This is how Norman had begun his long way of the most well-known illustrator to be in the 20th century.

We are in Stockbridge Museum of Norman Rockwell in Massachusetts – the place where the artist lived and worked for a long time in his life. We only were planning to stop here for 15 min, due to the long trip ahead to Niagara Falls. But the staff had charmed us with the attention and such an eager will to guide us through the place that we couldn’t resist and stayed.

Bewitched

Today the road brought us to Salem, MA – famous Witch City of the USA. It is old, it is pretty, it has its charm. Here in 17^th century locals accused a number of girls of being involved with black magic. Later the ones who survived got an official apology, but this story had become the main attraction of the town. Now an old lady on the broom’s image occupies many souvenirs-stores.

Get creative in New York

You can never get bored in New York! Just stand up, go and there are always a pool of things to do, to see, to participate. It is Tribeca Film Festival has just ended this weekend.  Art exhibitions right in the artists’ studios in SoHo, workshops from entertainment industry professionals and even family street fair are open for each New Yorker and an aware visitor.