27 September 2026

On my recent trip to New York City, I stayed in Flushing, Queens, and rode my bike to Flushing Cemetery to visit one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Louis was born in New Orleans in 1901, just as jazz was taking shape on the city’s streets. Brass bands, ragtime, blues, church […]

On my drive out of New York City, I stopped at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, about 40 km north of Manhattan in Westchester County, to visit the grave of the Russian-born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, known to the world as Ayn Rand. When I arrived, a book was resting on her headstone. I later […]

Every time I visit New York City, including my recent trip in September, I never miss a stop at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in Midtown Manhattan, directly across from Rockefeller Center. Dedicated in 1879, it is the largest Neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral in North America. What many visitors don’t […]