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Show faces popping out of each state. Two large, excellent pipe organs began the program which featured songs from each state. Across from the Music Hall, we ate at Lindy's-very expensive to our custom. The Rockefeller Center with its 16 buildings is most impressive. Parked car and walked to Waldorf-Astoria Hotelso beautiful. Rode in horse-drawn carriage. Coachman was Irish and had been in America three years. He was friendly and accommodating and took us right to our car. ($20.00) He got out and walked us over to the Rockefeller Plaza. Drove on 5th Avenue and some surrounding streets-most pleasant. The Gothic St. Patrick's Cathedral has most beautiful stained glass windows in all shapes and sizes. Driving back and forth to New Jersey we went through a New York City slum area-congested, rundown housing, garbage in bags placed on the sidewalk, heads hanging out of windows." May 29, 1981 "Lowell stood in line to get tickets to an off Broadway show at Royale Theater two musical comedies by the same cast. "A Day in Hollywood" and "A Night in the Ukraine" (Marx Brothers). One in the cast had graduated from the University of Utah in drama. May 30, 1981 Ferry boat to the Statue of Liberty, toured the U. N. Building, drove through Yonkers, left for Stanford, Conn. Stayed at the Marriott there, so plush, with our window looking out over the building of a new mall. Rode past Yale University. Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, and Nathan Hales buried in the New Haven Cemetery. On to Springfield, MA. Foliage up to freewaybeautiful and green. In Vermont at Plymouth Notch, visited President Calvin Coolidge's birthplace where he was sworn in as President by his father whom he was visiting at the time of President Harding's death. President Coolidge's son, John, returned in 1960 to renovate the family home. Ida and I bought Vermont cheese and delicious Maple syrup. Traveled on through Woodstock country and went across a red, covered bridge close by the White River Junction. On to Sharon, Vermont, passed the White River with the sun shining on it from the west. The Prophet Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805 in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont. He was born in a cabin which was on the dividing line of Sharon and South Royalton. A beautiful granite shaft 38 Vi feet high is at the Visitor's Center representative of the length of the Prophet's life. Brother and Sister Hendrickson gave us a tour. The grounds were lush, green, and peaceful. Visited Fayette, Seneca County, New York. In 1980, the LDS Church Sesquicentennial year, a General Conference session was broadcast from both the new chapel and the cabin where the Church was formally organized in New York State in 1830." May 31 1981 "Traveled to Canada. Quebec, the most French speaking Canadian City, has the old-world look. Our hotel widow had a breath-taking view of Quebec. Saw the Parliament building, walked through the old section of the city, had a little snack of |