Catskill High School Economics and Participation in Government seniors visited Lower Manhattan on May 21 as part of their class curriculum. Ms. Warden, Mrs. Field, Ms. Grober, and Mrs. Casalino chaperoned students as they visited many historic places that have shaped and continue to shape our nation’s history – from the sites where Native Americans and the Dutch first inhabited Manhattan and key figures of the American Revolution, to the New York Stock Exchange and the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
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- Students Inside Hamilton’s Customs House & Museum of the Native American
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- Students Inside Trinity Church
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- Native New York Students Posing in Front of Native New York Sign!
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- Students in front of Hamilton’s Grave in Trinity Church Courtyard
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- Mrs. Casalino and Students Learning About the Huge Role Native Americans Played in Building Manhattan’s Sky Scrapers
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- One of the 911 Memorial Reflecting Pools. Two massive reflecting pools were designed to sit exactly in the footprints of the original Twin Towers at the site of the September 11 attacks. The memorial’s overall design is called “Reflecting Absence.” At the center of each pool is a dark square void into which the water disappears. Arad, the designer, described the pools as “absence made visible.” The idea was that the loss left by 9/11 can never truly be filled. Water endlessly flows into the voids, but the emptiness remains. The waterfalls are the largest man made waterfalls in North America.
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- Students Viewing Names of 911 Victims. Friends and relatives of victims can leave a flower in their loved one’s name at the reflecting pool. The names are grouped by people who actually worked together/knew each other in the Trade Towers.
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- Students, Mrs. Field, and Mrs. Casalino Braving the Rain in Front of one the 911 Reflecting Pools
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- Zoey Standing Fearlessly with the Fearless Girl! The Fearless Girl faces the NY Stock Exchange and is meant to encourage women to go into business and succeed on an equal level with men.
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- Aiden checking Out the Fearless Girl and NY Stock Exchange! The New York Stock Exchange is on Wall Street. Wall Street gets its name from the wall built in 1653 by Peter Stuyvesant to protect Dutch New Amsterdam against now very hostile Native Americans who had been brutally slaughtered by Dutch troops and were now retaliating.