So I think I have to explain these pictures and how they are related. Yes, you can already tell I'm going to ramble a bit but you should be used to that by now. The gigantic arch is a Civil War Memorial at the end of the big Brooklyn park. This enormous hunk of cement with its eerily lifelike figures atop sits right smack in the middle of a horribly confusing intersection. I have driven though it many times (with much trepidation) and walked in/around it many many times and still I do not know exactly how many streets are at this intersection. It's a free-for-all, every man for himself (in cars that is). Anyway this big war monument happens to be hollow, with many rickety, spiraling staircases leading to little pieces of floor on the way up to the top. What would you expect to see stored in such a place (if you didn't have the strange pictures to help you out)? Old Civil War documents, memorabilia? Nope. Maybe equipment for the farmers market that sets up in the park? Uh-uh, guess again. It's puppets. There are tons of large and colorful puppets hanging from the stairs and arranged in little scenes as you make you way to the top floor "stage". Here an assortment of chairs (old rockers, lawn chairs, etc.) face a make-shift stage where marionettes actually come to put on shows. Oh, and it's not just a puppet museum, but a puppet library. You can check them out, no fee, and use them in your puppet show! Isn't that strange? Personally, I want the arch to by my apartment--there's parking below and great skylights in the top, and who can beat the proximity to the park.
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