NaCl

January 30, 2012

jonnyrodgers:

The Brooklyn Navy Yard - I’ve long wanted to go. My ancestors Commodore John Rodgers and Commodore Matthew C. Perry both spent considerable amounts of time there. In charge of things, I suppose. The old row houses where the Admirals lived have been left to wrack and ruin, and are soon to be torn down to make way for a supermarket. So it goes. I’ve heard that one house is to be preserved - the one that Perry lived in during his time there. So that’s a silver lining. I often find myself wishing that America would restore and renew instead of destroying and replacing things. At least, restore and renew things that had been beautifully made.

See above, and copy+paste for Governors Island. My parents lived there before the Coast Guard base was closed and now it’s a bunch of abandoned Colonel’s houses, apartment buildings, and the Admiral’s mansion…the city uses it for park space but if they just restored the buildings instead of leaving them to rot it would be like having a charming and historic small town- complete with a castle and a fort- five minutes from the southern tip of Manhattan.
The Hydraengas there have grown wild for a decade and they’re beautiful.
Also, Jonny Rodgers is a descendant of Matthew C. Perry? Mind. Blown.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard - I’ve long wanted to go. My ancestors Commodore John Rodgers and Commodore Matthew C. Perry both spent considerable amounts of time there. In charge of things, I suppose. The old row houses where the Admirals lived have been left to wrack and ruin, and are soon to be torn down to make way for a supermarket. So it goes. I’ve heard that one house is to be preserved - the one that Perry lived in during his time there. So that’s a silver lining. I often find myself wishing that America would restore and renew instead of destroying and replacing things. At least, restore and renew things that had been beautifully made.

See above, and copy+paste for Governors Island. My parents lived there before the Coast Guard base was closed and now it’s a bunch of abandoned Colonel’s houses, apartment buildings, and the Admiral’s mansion…the city uses it for park space but if they just restored the buildings instead of leaving them to rot it would be like having a charming and historic small town- complete with a castle and a fort- five minutes from the southern tip of Manhattan.

The Hydraengas there have grown wild for a decade and they’re beautiful.

Also, Jonny Rodgers is a descendant of Matthew C. Perry? Mind. Blown.

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