Kingston, NY–8 June 2015

More pictures from the Kingston area. The third picture is the Rondout lighthouse.

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Hyde Park

We went to Hyde Park and saw the FDR Library and Museum.

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This sculpture was made from parts of the Berlin Wall, and was created by Sir Winston Churchill’s granddaughter.

berlin wall sculpture

More pictures from the museum area.

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The museum had a special exhibit showing gifts that have been given to U.S. Presidents. The third picture shows a cel from a Walt Disney movie and a set of spurs from Roy Rogers.

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This is a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, made with a typewriter.

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These pictures are from the rest of the museum.

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One of the other visitors to the museum saw this sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt and said, “I didn’t know they had a statue of Jimmy Carter here.”

eleanor roosevelt bust

These aren’t in the museum collection, but they looked interesting. I have never seen green traffic cones before, but apparently they do exist.

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Vanderbilt Mansion

We were headed to the Vanderbilt Mansion and came in the back way and saw this coach house, which has been converted to a maintenance storage facility.

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Here are pictures from the mansion area proper.

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...and the Italian Gardens. What a USGS observation station is doing there, I have no clue.

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There is a very steep hill near the parking area. They don’t want people sledding down it in the winter.

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Rheinbeck/Kingston

We went shopping a bit in Rheinbeck, and saw this interesting cigarette disposal (something you don’t see in California much if at all).

cigarette disposal

The remaining photos are from Kingston.

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I call this one “Kingstonehenge.”

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Signage

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