Harriet is my 2nd cousin – her grandfather and mine were brothers and Ellen is the next generation down. We spent the day down in Greenwich village where Harriet lives, having brunch, looking at family trees, chatting in Washington Square. The park was full of young people in brilliant purple gowns who were celebrating their graduation from New York University.
We also went to the Grey Art Museum where there was an exhibition of American artists who had gone to Paris after WW2. The GI Bill enacted in 1944 offered ex-servicemen a pathway to college, including an option to study abroad and many American artists took up this possibility.
