Our readers are always on the ball. We were indeed at the Statue of Liberty (innards designed by Gustave Eiffel, financed by the public as egged on by Joseph Pulitzer), which we accessed from the New Jersey side via Audrey Zapp Road, named after a local visionary who made Liberty State Park happen.

The second leg of the trip was to Sag Harbor, Long Island, which is directly adjacent to the oh-so-toney Hamptons. One of the fathers of the town was a fellow named John Jermain, whose dreams of wind power, we hear, were way ahead of their time. There is a wonderful museum in town dedicated to whaling, which was big doings there until the mid-1800's.