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Stone Street in Lower Manhattan and NMAI, mid- March 2014

What a great day! We started on Stone Street, an historic, cobblestone street in lower Manhattan, off Wall Street, with a delicious brunch at Smorgas Chef. We then walked over to the National Museum of the American Indian in lower Manhattan to explore the exhibit Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes. Our guide, Asia Marie Tail, was a lovely young Native artist who was knowledgeable and charmed us all. We were recognized at the start of an interesting talk by the exhibit curators and several featured artists, and also had the opportunity to speak with Native women basketmakers, painters, and weavers exhibiting in the NMAI courtyard. A good time was had by 35 folks coming in from all part of New York, as well as from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. (Co-hosts Legislator Roy and Ms. Julia Slavin came in from Missouri.) We'll have to do it again!