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Before the lawyers and treaties and the Court of International Trade, Manhattan and the surrounding area had a very different set of diplomatic rituals. For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Lenape and surrounding indigenous groups used wampum to strengthen ties between groups. Wampum is mostly made from the

I left the house on Friday morning and I was gone for 36 hours and it was delicious fruit.

The great global experiment to find out if everybody in the world can live together in one place. So far, so good.

This past afternoon I gave a tour to a cool family from Long Beach. I was waiting for them outside Di Palo's when two 60ish year old women in expensive clothes walked by and started talking about Di Palo's. I encouraged them to go inside, and

April 20 - June 24 2025

Whenever I go to Freeman Alley I take a bunch of lazy photos. It makes my camera roll a joy to scroll, because there are hundreds of these images, all clumped together with these enormous bursts of color. Over the last few days, I've been at Freeman 3