Tourist day 3

Tourist Day 3
Today first thing I went to the Windsor Library downtown. I had tried the satellite library yesterday and could not get on and today at first it looked the same way but finally after some effort I was hooked up to the internet and was able to post the blogs. So be thankful for libraries and persistence.
Later I toured the carving exhibits and doll exhibit in the library, really quite a site.
Next it was onto the parks along the riverfront.
Years ago the city swapped some land the railroads had along the waterfront for land outside the city. That land no rather than some old junky railway yard is now a beautiful landscaped parkway that runs throughout the city and has jogging and bicycle trails and gardens everywhere. Just behind the park is the Caesars Palace Casino and they have top name entertainers come to perform. In the next block down overlooking the river is the Center for the Performing Arts and next to it is the Windsor Art Museum. So everything is very close together and has a view of the parkway and the river.
Across the river you see the skyline of Detroit.
In some earlier blogs I stated that Detroit had been a settlement since 1705 but this area had been settled by the French trappers as early as the mid 1600’s and native artifacts have been found since 400 BC.
Well after a lunch at an Irish Pub I went and photographed the Windsor Daily Star building. This was the local newspaper and where I had to go every Saturday to pay for the newspapers that I delivered during the week. It seemed to be quite a bicycle ride at the time.
Now I am back doing the journal and in a short while will meet Mary and John for a perch fish dinner where they say the fish is great. I have not had perch since I lived here but it is a great local fish.