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Walk for the Cure

Well, I'm finally relatively healthy again - enough to complete the 3 mile Walk for the Cure this morning in downtown Newark, anyway. Bill and I joined our neighbor Linda on her walk, which was not only for a good cause - a cure for breast cancer - but let us see a bit more of the downtown while walking down the middle of Broad Street - usually NOT a good idea.

Linda mentioned to us that Grace Episcopal Church, seen below, was where the melody to America the Beautiful was composed. According to this website: http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000001/default.html, the current music was written by the church's choirmaster in 1882, and the words often used to be sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" - interesting.



We also saw a few other interesting landmarks on the way down (before our camera's batteries died), though I'm afraid I can't identify them - maybe once I take anouther walk downtown I'll add the names of this other church:



And this war memorial:



In any case, the walk seemed to be a big success. You can't really tell from these pictures, but there were hundreds and hundreds of people out for it - including lots of high school students, which was great to see. And I have to say one of the highlights was getting to see Batman driving slowly along, complete with vanity plate. You never know who you're going to run into here in Newark!

posted by Tina @ 6:38 PM