Giornale
Exiting the parking lot of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the warmth the early spring sun was energizing in a way that sitting in a classroom simply could not be. We were in Albany to see and explore Nelson A. Rockefeller’s monumental Empire State Plaza, our first big outing as a group. It had taken several cars to get us all there, but after a small regroup we were good to go. Before we could get to the main event, we took a slight detour and stopped by the New York State World War II memorial, a lovely fountain and statue that sits nestled in a towering circle of hedge in the shadow of the massive New York State Museum next door. Wandering the memorial and discussing with everyone about what common features made it a memorial really helped me to get in the mindset to think about the plaza. A little slice of memory isolated in the city scape. I had to wonder if the Plaza would be anything like it. Walking to the Plaza itself took but a few minutes, and soon