My Christmas Wish List No. 4

From the Read portion of my Christmas list I'm hoping to find this interesting book under the tree this year. I found many of the pre-restoration photographs on exhibit through our tour of Ellis Island earlier this year fascinating and I know that I would love to spend some time examining all the interesting photographs behind this cover. Thanks in part to Mr. Wilkes' photography they have begun working on the restoration of the south side of Ellis Island. Maybe someday I'll be able to go back and tour the entirety of this fascinating historical place.

New York City, Day One

As I mentioned below I finally got some of the pictures from our NYC trip uploaded this weekend. I whittled my massive 500+ photos down to a Reader's Digest 90+. Here are some of my favorite's from Day One, which we spent at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Ellis Island was one of my favorite parts of our trip, and I literally photographed almost everything up to 3/4 of the way through when I realized my battery was almost dead! Don't worry, I'm not posting all those, ha. I plan on posting more on the rest of our trip this week, but if you're impatient you can view them all here. Side note- the postcard featured is for the S.S. Celtic which is the ship that my family came over on in 1909, and the names shown includes my great-grandfather, Thomas Tumilson.