“New York State of Mind”

John & Gloria Fried – 917-262-3957 (John) or 914-262-4635 (Gloria)  

Take a tip from Billy Joel and enter a “New York State of Mind.” Meet up with the group at Buffalo, NY and take a 22-day tour of the many splendors of the Empire State from Niagara Falls to the Statue of Liberty. Featured attractions include a ride on the Maid of the Mist at the foot of the Falls; the Erie Canal in Buffalo and the Theodore Roosevelt inaugural site; Seneca Falls and the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote; Alexandria Bay and the Thousand Island Region, a boat tour on Lake George; historic Fort Ticonderoga; the Revolutionary War battlefield in Saratoga; Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame and the Glimmerglass Opera production of Showboat’ West Point and an Army Football game; franklin Roosevelt’s home at Hyde Park followed by dinner at the famed Culinary Institute of America; the Old Dutch Church and Sunnyside where Washington Irving wrote the Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Yankee Stadium, the home of the Bronx Bombers; the sites of Manhattan, Grand Central Terminal, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a Broadway show; concluding with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.