Last Class

Yesterday was the last class for this blogging and social media class.
First, we planned to eat the hamburger that is made firstly in the world.
However, the restaurant was closed, so we went to the public high school in New Haven.

Since this school focuses on educating arts such as visual art, dancing, acting and so on.
The school was really different from those of Japan, and it was interesting for me.

After visiting the school, we went to Ashly's, which is famous for delicious ice cream!

It was really good, but what was surprising for me was that although I just ordered "medium," the ice cream was much larger than "large" in Japan.

Through this class, I could learn many cultural differences between the United States and Japan.
Also after I come back to Japan, I want to value experiences I got during these six weeks.
Thank you, Julia!

Yale Peabody Museum

This Monday, we went to the Yale Peabody Museum.
It exhibits many variety of things such as fossils, the bones of apes, Native American's stuffs, things about Machu Picchu and so on.

However, out of them, what was most exciting for me was the stuffed animals especially birds ones.
I like the way this museum exhibit them.
They are well ordered to make it easy to understand the group or characteristics.
Moreover, I was very surprised that all of these birds can be seen in here, Connecticut.

Also, there are many minerals.
These minerals in these pictures are only a small part of the minerals which can be seen in this museum.

Whatever you want to see, if you visit here, you could find it, so why not go there?

Return to Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

On Monday, I went to Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History again.

Researches of Yale University were surprising and exciting. Look at this a turtle. It is so big. Almost all of the exhibits are well preserved.

One of the most interesting exhibits for me is this skeleton. It is Homo erectus which was extincted before Homosapiens. It is the same as Java Man and was not human ancestor, which was surprisingly, 1.66 million years old.

You can learn the knowledge of human beings, animals, minerals and so on here, where is a place stuffed with our curiousity about the world. 

Industries of New Haven

Today is fun day because we visit the historical museum in New Haven.
I was thinking that we have less opportunity to know about history of New Haven,
even though we are now here.

Front of the New Haven Museum

Sign of the museum

After we payed for entry fee (two dollars per person for students discount), we could see a lot of contents regarding New Haven's history. My initial impression of the city was  just collage town, but the city has many remarkable history, culture, and industries. I would like to focus on industry in New Haven at today's blog entry.

According to display, New Haven was one of the most industrial city in U.S. in 19th century.
The kind of industries were, for example, bewildering variety of goods including hardware, carriages, automobile parts, accessories, corsets, clocks, carpeting, rubber overshoes, clothing, musical instruments and small consumer goods.

Garment factory "Smoothie"

Industrial Area in New Haven

One of the famous industry was bicycle production. There are several type of old bicycle.



Bicycle factory

Old style bicycle

Bicycle factory

Next one is corsets industry. It is said that New Haven was biggest industry area of corsets production in the world in 19th century.




Corset

Corset



 The concentration of such industries was due to the presence of harver where was able to gather coal, metals, cotton, and other raw materials from production area. 

New Haven Harbor

New Haven Steamboat Company

Anyway, I found that New Haven has more interesting history, especially industries,  than I expected.
I excited to visit the museum.


NEW HAVEN MUSEUM
114 WHITNEY AVENUE, NEW HAVEN, CT
www.newhavenmuseum.org

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Today, I missed to meet at an appointed point for our class at 1;30pm., so I went to Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History alone. It was so amazing place. Actually, I didn't know there but I regret I didn't go until today after seeing it and coming back now. You can get histrical knowledge of pre-history and stuffed animals and insects. I admired such a magnificent, great nature and ecological Earth.

PEPE'S!!!!!

On last Wednesday, I went to PEPE pizza resutaurant. It was so histolical place. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is one of the oldest and best-known pizzerias in the United States. Local people sometimes argue whether PEPE's or SULLY's better. It was so delicious. Foreign people shoul go here!

Famous Pizza Restaurant in New Haven (Frank PEPE Pizzeria Napoletana)

I went to the pizza restaurant located in Wooster street, Italian residential district of New Haven. There is a cheerful street gate.

Woostar Street Gate

Woostar Street Gate

"Frank PEPE Pizzeria Napoletana" is one of famous pizza restaurant in New Haven. It is said that New Haven was the first place where pizza was introduced in U.S.

FRANK PEPE

 

The restaurant When we arrived there, almost fifteen customers were lining up in front of the restaurant so I felt that it is popular restaurant within this city.

They have had won the well-known award so far. One of the award was "America's Resional Classics Award" by The James Beard Foundation.

 

America's Resional Classics Award

This is the menu. We ordered two types of pizza, The Original Tomato Pie with sausage, bakon and spinach.

Menu

It was tasty, crunchy texture, more delicious than the Yale dinning hall's one.  It was good opportunity to find culture of New Haven and eat delicious food.

Pizza with spinach

　

Pizza with sausage and bacon