They pave paradise-to put up a parking lot

Monument vs Real Landmark

After a while lil girl, big dog and mom start heading back to the otherside of the monument.
I get to look into the entranceway of the doric column- through the window grating in the door. And there as big a life is the step ladder leading up to the top of the monument and nothing more. No bodies,no ghosts or coffins just a step ladder. The bodies are in a crypt a few steps below the monument on this site. I head around to the other side of the monument
where lil girl,big dog and mom seem to have made their camp while stripping bark off a fallen
tree limb.

Time to head down to the street that once had the title "murder ave"(myrtle ave)
which leads to duffield street where the original abolitionist houses that assisted slaves in
the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD are being demolished to put up a parking lot. What's the
deciding factor in what becomes a monument/memorial? $ money?

Sally Hemings Children

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

What is the story with Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson?

What became of the children?

Sally was a young female slave "companion " of Thomas Jefferson after his wife died. It's said to have been a long relationship. DNA testing has supported the weight of history evidence pointing to a long relationship and conclusion that Jefferson was the father to six mixed-race children. Jefferson freed all of them at age 21. The entire Hemings nucleus family left Monticello as free persons after Jefferson's death.

Can we be sure President Obama is the first black president of the United States of America?

I'm just wondering as I stand on this high elevation-breathing the rarified air

Black History ?

Where are the people of color?

While I'm waiting for lil girl to get over her tantrum for dropping her icy stick
I'll reflect on the history of this place. This was a major escape route for George Washington's retreat from the british seige. Ft.Greene named after
Gen. Nathaniel Greene is the site of the Prison Ship Martyrs memorial. The captured patriots were imprisoned on decommissioned British ships moored in Wallabout Bay. Many of the bodies buried by the shores were washed up as
bones on the shores. Walt Whitman was instrumental in building a memorial
and crypt in this park. This is the second highest Brooklyn elevation and the view is marvelous. Across the street -Myrtle Ave-you see the Whitman and Ingersoll Houses.
Past the Houses you see the BQE and past that there's the brooklyn Navy Yard,Wallabout Bay
and a view of the Manhattan skyline. Then further down the street you see the many towering condos being build around the downtown MetroTech area. Reminds me of the Wall the Dutch
built in Manhattan to keep out the Natives. A new Wall Street in the making. What happens to
the natives? Tell me Carter G.