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Show Family Weekly / aprit 19, 1970 My Favorite U.S. Trave Philipsburg Manor, Tarrytown, N.Y. Y TRAVELS have taken me practically everywhere in the United States andits territories, and I have many She Ven Dost o favorite paces. piit ps I should start with the one I know best—mynativecity. I was born in New York on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs, and T continue to have ties there by serving as chairman ofthe board oftrustees of the Richmondtown Restoration, the only such re-creation of a typical American village of the 18th and 19th centuries in the center of metropolitan New York.It is a tourist stop that will become more and more important as the years go by. New York can be noisy, crowded, and raucous. But try the Wall Street canyons on a Sunday. Take yourself to Chinatown,the safest foreign area in the city, and enjoy a dumpling luncheon st Lee’s on Mott Street, corner of Pell. I’ve been going to Chinatown since I was four years old and knowits every alley and all its good restaurants (and some of this information I keep to myself). New York has every imaginable kind of restaurant. A gourmetcould never grow bored there. Go to the famous Reuben’s for the best sandwiches in the country, to Le Mistral or La Grenouille for food which rivals anything in Paris. To the Four Seasons, which is an eye-popper to out-of-towners, or the Oak Room of the lovely old Plaza Hotel, where you will find all kinds ofcelebrities after the theater. Take a boat tip around the island on the Circle Line for a mere $3.25 (or $1.50 for children under 12). At the way—and the Duke, too). Admission to each of these historic houses is $1.50 for adults and 75¢ for children 6 to 14. They are all open daily on a year-round basis. I have some cookie recipes I have greatly enjoyed fro.a the Sleepy Hollow Restoration houses. If you would like a free copy of them, send me least tour the a post card. great Metropolitan Opera, Philharmonic Hall, and the New York State Theater. Tours begin every 20 minutes at 10 in the morning andcontinue until 5, seven days a week. In the summer, see free theater in Central Park. The New York Shakespeare Festival is a remarkable cultural gift to the city of publisher George Delacorte. (And don’t miss his fountains at the UN Plaza, or Mary Lasker’s plantings of flowers along Park Avenue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, thelovely little Museum Street and its nearby Museum of Early American Folk Art at 49 West 53rd Street should be on yourlist. If you are traveling East, plan to include some of the fascinating Places in the New York area, such as the Sleepy Hollow Restorations— Sunnyside and Van Cortland Manor in suburban Tarrytown. Sunnyside was the home of Washington Irving, whose “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”is part of every American school child’s education. Part of the Restoration’s property includes the newly completed Philipsburg Manor in North Tarrytown. Also in Tarrytown, as part of the Family Weekly, April 19, 1970 One place that I enjoy very much, National Trust, is Lindhurst, a 19thcentury restoration of the former to walk the Freedom Trail. This is about a mile through historic old Boston. At the information bvoth, which is the starting point on Boston Common, they will teil you just how to proceed. All of Cape Cod, which I love, particularly the island of Nantucket, deserves an article of its own. See the Cape by car or bus, and don’t forget the little town of Sandwich withits fascinating museum of Sandwich glass and its lived-in, pre-Revolutionary, salt-box houses. It’s a memorabie piace to enjoy ihe beautifui sea and the seafood, including the delicious fried c! Now going the other way from New York, I would like to take you to Wilmington, Delaware (an easy drive), to Winterthur, the Henry Francis DuPont estate, now a museum furnished with American antiques from Mr. DuPont's collection. I have happy memories of a beautiful day there. But yon must make an appointment by ietter or phone, with reservations easier to get during the of Primitive Art at 11 West 45th Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC. Park Street Church, Boston home of the Duchess of Tallyrand, the former Anna Gould (whom I knew when I was very young, by Beach at Bakia Honda Key, Florida especially in the spring, is Atlantic City, NJ. It began in 1853 as a resort and in the 1880's and 1890's rivaled Newport, R.I., as a fashionable center. Its great boardwalk was an innovationin 1870, copied throughout the world. I love to bicycle on it or saunter along in the spring sunshine. I stey at the ChalfontHaddon Hall (the Haddon Hall part), visit the Tussaud Museum and swim in the hotel pool, and sleep and rest to my heart’s content before the howling summer mob hits the city and the season starts. Connecticut (where I lived for 15 years), Vermont, and New Hampshire are New England bailiwicks of mine, and Massachusetts, too, beginiuing with Boston. I like to stay at the Ritz and eat Parker House rolls at the Parker House, saving my appetite for Locke-Ober’s, one of the finest restaurants in the city. It’s opposite the old City Hall on an alley so narrow that youalight from your week than on weekends. Reservations for the complete tour must be made very far in advance—months in advance,actually. On weekdays you can sometimes call one day and be received the next. The museum is closed on Sunday and Monday.If you cannot makea reservation, but wouid like to see something of the mag- The Cloister, Sea Island, Georgia nificent place, there are 10 roomsin the south wing which may be seen without reservations for a modest taxi and walk in if you are lucky enoughto have gotten a reservation. Expensive but, oh, those lobsters. Of course, Harvard is there in nearby Cambridge. If you have good feet, and especially if you have your weeks during the year, however, when no reservations are necessary. This is from April 21 through May 23, when 26 rooms are open Tuesdays threugh Saturdays. chillren with you, take two hours Do include in your day the lush admission charge. There are a few |