Just finished a bunch of school group tours to New York this week. Exhausting to do student tours, but rewarding (when it's over with). Right now the Texas kids are here...middle schools, high schools, junior colleges, etc.
We did EVERYthing in New York including Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Harlem, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, soHo, Chinatown (God, they love Chinatown and all that cheap stuff), and of course the World Trade Center area including the new 9/11 Memorial fountains.
Tomorrow I'm with people from a cruise ship, Wednesday I've nice folks (mostly Mormon) from Utah and then another school group at the end of this week.
Coming up I've got some private family tours in New York. This morning I gave a 3 hour limo tour with a nice young couple from Mississippi who were up here for the 33rd annual Mississippi Picnic in Central Park. Wow...haven't been to that in a long time but it's just as much fun. Country music, yummy catfish, homemade cake, and lots of free t-shirts and stuff. I'm not from Mississippi but it doesn't matter. Just like on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish....today everybody was from Mississippi!
Jim Dykes, NYC Celebrity Tourguide writes about Opera Superstar MARIA CALLAS- Diva Supreme-- raised in Manhattan's Washington Heights Neighborhood!
La Divina. Prima Donna Extraordinaire, The Golden Voice of the Century. These descriptive terms were all used in reference to the legendary opera star Maria Callas, who spent ten of her formative years growing up as a bright, chubby child in Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. In fact, her initial musical training and first public performances took place in this Northern Manhattan neighborhood. When Callas died at age 53 on Sept. 16, 1977, the world lost one of the greatest singers in history. She had also slimmed down and become not only an opera star, but a fashion star. Without any question, Callas was a celebrity. Even for those who were not opera devotees, she provided front page reading and was a source of gossip due to cancellations in major opera houses, a much-publicized divorce from Italian industrialist Battista Meneghina after she met the infamous Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, and a humiliating rejection when Onassis tossed her aside to marry another cele...
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