[Magdalen] Visiting New York

[Ann Markle]

I love the Cloisters,too, and highly recommend it. If you stay an extra
day, Lynn can give you info on a very reasonable place to stay. I stayed
there one night, but have forgotten the name.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:54 PM Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> I second the recommendation on the Cloisters. It's at the north end of
> Manhattan, not near other attractions. IIRC, it takes a subway + bus, or
> subway + walk up a steep hill to get there. That's why it's more of a day
> trip.
>
> There are other museums, of course - the Metropolitan, MOMA, Guggenheim,
> Museum of Natural History come to mind. There's also lots of music, etc.,
> going on all the time. The New Yorker magazine (it's online) will have all
> the info on that. Personally, I'd head for the Village Vanguard, but that's
> just me.
>
> You really need to stay an extra day or so just to do tourist stuff.
>
> I know nothing much of parishes in New York, but I do know that St. Mary
> the
> Virgin has a reputation as a liberal Anglo-Catholic parish.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ME Michaud
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 10:12 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Visiting New York
>
> I think you would love The Cloisters (although it’s more of a day trip).
>
> St. Mary the Virgin (Times Square) is one A-C parish that doesn’t crap all
> over women. Daily services, too.
> -M
>
>
> On Saturday, February 3, 2018, Claudine Chionh <anglican at claudinec.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello pub.
> >
> > I've been subscribed but haven’t had much spare energy for this list or
> > much other communication for a while. Some of you have seen some of my
> > trials on Facebook, which often ends up being the one place I can keep up
> > with people when everything else feels too overwhelming.
> >
> > 2017 was a mixed year for me. My depression became barely manageable, my
> > cat died, I ceased my IT consulting work, and went on unemployment
> > benefits
> > as a temporarily disabled person.
> >
> > Then I got a new cat, and got accepted into a PhD program at the
> > University of Divinity (Australia's only specialist theological
> > university,
> > the former Melbourne College of Divinity). Like most Australian PhD
> > programs, this is by dissertation only: a study of LGBTIQ Christian
> > autobiography as a genre and as a form of practical theology.
> >
> > Now, ten years after my previous visit to North America, I am once again
> > travelling with the World Student Christian Federation, as part of a
> > delegation of faith-based organisations to the UN Commission on the
> Status
> > of Women, in March. I expect I will be in meetings/talks most of the
> time,
> > but will hopefully have a bit of time to look around New York again. If I
> > had only one afternoon to myself, what do you recommend I do or see? And
> > any recommendations for a relaxed Anglo-Catholic parish?
> >
> > --
> > Claudine Chionh
> > Melbourne, Australia
> >
>
> --
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com