Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:00PM: It's rare that you get a guided tour through still unfolding carnage. Imagine walking through Aceh right after the tsunami or New Orleans while the rains from Katrina still fell. Lower Manhattan's financial crisis tour doesn't involve as much bad weather or physical danger, but it does give you the chance to learn about the most profound financial disaster in decades in the place where it all ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
GeorgeWashington posts
See the financial crisis on this unusual Wall Street tour
Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:00PM: It's rare that you get a guided tour through still unfolding carnage. Imagine walking through Aceh right after the tsunami or New Orleans while the rains from Katrina still fell. Lower Manhattan's financial crisis tour doesn't involve as much bad weather or physical danger, but it does give you the chance to learn about the most profound financial disaster in decades in the place where it all ...See how the presidents live away from home
Feb 16th, 2009 at 3:00PM: There's more to the presidency than the White House. From Camp David to presidential libraries across the country, there are plenty of portals into the lives of those who have held the most powerful office in the world. In fact, the real insights may come not from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but from these other homes. A recent article on CNN offers five prime locations. Lincoln's Birthplace: Run by ...Washington's birthday--a virtual tour of Mt. Vernon
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 5:20PM: Earlier this week I headed to Mt. Vernon. Not physically, but via Mt. Vernon's Web site. I see lots and lots and lots of Web sites. Web site hopping is a great way to pass writing time. Mt. Vernon's Web site is the Rolls Royce of sites. There is so much material that it's easy to get lost in the wandering.
Details range from the reconstruction of a slave cabin to how to make Martha Washington's ...The Wall Street District is Officially Historic
Mar 7th, 2007 at 10:17PM: Every day I pay a bit of attention, not much, to what Wall Street is doing. I generally have a vague notion of what it means when I hear the Dow is up or down. Up is good. Down is bad. I think. Regardless of my fuzziness about finances, Wall Street's placement on the National Register of Historic Places is something I can understand.
Consider this. Wall Street, the street not the district, was ...
