This week’s field trips:

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The Marijuana Policy Project held an event here to raise $ for ballot initiatives in Colorado, Arkansas and South Dakota and to honor three cannabis activists. The usual colorful characters were there but also a few more suits. Take a look at the dizzying number and variety of posters; my favorite was the Marilyn Monroe skirt lifting photo as a hologram.

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Poets House and Storm King held a poetry reading here. Four poets read; I lay on the ground and looked through the leaves of an oak tree. Have you ever looked back at NYC from the water? If you haven’t (and I hadn’t), then you haven’t seen NYC.

Plaque on a rock

Governor’s Island
Called by the Indians “Pagganck”…. the price paid was two axe heads, a string of beads and a handful of nails.”