Travel information and tourism places of interest

Tallest of its Gothic spires is Harkness Tower, from which a carillon peals at 392 Connecticut Coast New Haven Connecticut Coast New Haven 393 74.             75.          PLACES TO STAY 2 Holiday Inn New Haven at Yale 9 Three Chimneys Inn 10 The Colony 11 Hotel Duncan PLACES TO EAT 7 Yankee Doodle Sandwich Shop 18 Bangkok Gardens 20 Scoozzi Trattoria 21 Atticus Bookstore Cafe & Chapel Sweet Shoppe 23 Union League Cafe 24 Claire's 26 louis' Lunch 27 Caffe Adults 28 Tibwin Grill 32 Sallie's Pizza 33 Frank Pepe's OTHER 1 Peabody Museum of Natural History 3 Yale Co-Op 4 Toad's Place 5 Woolsey Hall 6 Council Travel 8 Sprague Memorial Hall 12 Yale University Art Gallery 13 Harkness Tower 14 Yale University Visitor Center 15 United Church 16 Center Church on the Green 17 Greater New Haven Convention &. Visitors Bureau 19 Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale University Theatre 22 Yale Center for British Art 25 Trinity Church 29 Shubert Performing Arts Center 30 Bru Rm at Bar 31 vale-New Haven Hospital New Haven Harbor appropriate moments throughout the day.

On the south side of the Oak St Connector is an extensive modern campus holding the Yale-New Haven Hospital and many other medical science buildings. Stop at the Visitor Information Office at Elm St and Temple St (see Information, above) and pick up a free campus map and a walking-tour brochure. For a free one-hour student-guided walking tour, arrive slightly before 10:30 am or 2 pm weekdays or at 1:30 pm weekends. Yale's museums have outstanding collections, and the art museums are free. Peabody Museum of Natural HistoryThe museum 170 Whitney Ave, five blocks northeast of the green along Temple St, has a vast collection of animal, vegetable and mineral specimens, including dinosaur fossils, wildlife dioramas, meteorites and minerals. It's open 10 am to 5 pm daily (noon to 5 pm Sunday). Admission costs $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children from three to 15. Yale Center for British Art This museum, 1080 Chapel St, at the corner of High St a block west of the green, holds the most comprehensive collection of British art outside the UK.

The collections cover the period from Queen Elizabeth I to the present, with special emphasis on the period from Hogarth (born 1697) through Turner (died 1851). It's open 10 am to 5 pm (noon to 5 pm Sunday) and is closed Monday; admission is free. Yale University Art Gallery Masterworks by Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Manet, Picasso and van Gogh fill the Yale Gallery Chapel St between High and York, opposite the Yale Center for British Art. Besides the masterworks, there are important collections of American silver from the 18th century and art from Africa, Asia, the preand post-Colombian Americas and Europe: 75, 000 objects in all.

It's open 10 am to 4:45 pm (2 to 4:45 pm Sunday); closed Monday. Admission to the gallery is free. Places to Stay Camping There are no campgrounds near New Haven. The closest are 21 miles east along 1-95 near Clinton. Hammonasset Beach State Park on the coast between Madison and Clinton (1-95 exit 62), has 558 sites for $12 each and, despite its size, is often full in high summer. Private campgrounds are more expensive than state park campgrounds (such as Hammonasset Beach). The Riverdale Farm Campsites on River Rd in Clinton, has 250 sites open mid- April through September. The nearby River Road Campground has 50 sites that are open from mid- April to mid- October. Motels The Motel 6 New Haven 1-91 exit 8, is a few miles north of the city, with 58 rooms for $58 to $64. The Quality Inn & Conference Center, just off the Wilbur Cross Parkway (exit 59), several miles to the northeast, offers its 125 rooms for $99, Light breakfast included. Hotels & Inns Hotel Duncan Chapel StY, at York, is New Haven's classic hostelry, a period piece more than a century old.

The decor and facilities of fin-de-siecle New Haven have been preserved (rooms have fans rather than aircon). Prices also seem from an earlier time: $48 single, $68 double, $79 for a suite. Only a few steps from the Duncan is The Colony a modern ish hotel with 86 comfortable rooms within walking distance of everything, going for $99 single, $109 double. Ask about special discounted rates. Holiday Inn New Haven at Yale has 160 rooms (the higher rooms have good views) only a few minutes' walk from the green. Rooms are priced around $99, depending upon the exact date and room. Three Chimneys Inn Connecticut Coast New Haven at Howe, is an 1870 Victorian townhouse that's been well restored. The 10 rooms, decorated in period style (mostly Victorian), rent for $160 per night, lull breakfast included. Places to Eat For some reason, New Haven has one of the most changeable restaurant scenes in New England. Places pop up and go out of business rapidly. Cafes & Diners Atticus Bookstore Cafe  between High and York, has been serving coffee, soups, sandwiches and pastries amid-  the stacks for almost two decades. Mocking McDonald's, it proclaims 'Millions of scones served since 1981.' Prices are not low, and a slice of choice pastry or cheesecake might cost as much as $5, though there are things for less. The bookstore adjoins, and both are open true college-town hours: 8 am to mid- night daily. Louis' Lunch between College and High, claims to be the place where the hamburger was invented well, almost. Around 1900, when the vertically grilled ground beef sandwich was first introduced at Louis', the restaurant was in a different location. 

Australia Tourism information Aborigines tradition and culture

Captain Cook, on his voyage of discovery, wrote in his journal that the Aborigines "appear to be the most wretched people on the Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans." Despite Cook's insight, it did not stop him basing his claim on the eastern seaboard of Australia on the legal fiction that he had discovered a terra nullius - a land without people. At the time of Cook's visit, the Aboriginal population was probably between 500,000 and one million. The subsequent interaction between white settlers and Aborigines almost turned Cook's legal fiction into fact. Disease, high child mortality rates and persecution of the local inhabitants dramatically reduced their numbers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Aboriginal population was as low as 50,000. Today it is estimated that there are about 230,000 people of Aboriginal descent living in Australia. Aborigines were displaced, often by force, by early white settlers who spread out from their first settlements to secure grazing land for sheep. In Tasmania, dispossession turned to genocide, nearly wiping out its indigenous population. Only a few survived on offshore islands. The settlers' weapons easily overpowered those of the indigenous people, but the Aborigines did not simply give up their land without a fight.

In many areas of the country, guerrilla warfare tactics were used by Aboriginal people in retaliation The Country and Its People for the white settlers' transgressions of tribal law. In some areas with a high Aboriginal population, such as near Hobart and Sydney and Cooktown on Cape York, different tribes united to launch at- tacks on the colonists. The expansion of the colony, however, was not greatly hindered by Aboriginal resistance, much weakened by the diseases brought by Europeans.

The introduction of alcohol further debilitated their society. In 1905, the government adopted a policy of "protecting" the Aborigines by segregating them from the influences of European society. 

This formalized and accelerated a movement initiated in the 1870s of moving Aboriginal people to missions and reserves. This was, in fact, a reaction to wide- spread concern that Australia had witnessed the destruction of a race with the death of Truganini - purportedly "Tasmania's Last Aborigine" - in Hobart in 1876. Aborigines were removed from their traditional territories and different tribes were moved onto the same reserves without any regard to kinship or relationships.

The Aboriginals Ordinance in1918 placed many Aboriginal children of white fathers in the foster care of white families, as a way of ensuring the "purity" of Aboriginal communities.

 This institutionalized racism continued until the 1930s and in some cases into the 1960s, resulting in a "stolen generation" of people, forcibly cut off from their Aboriginal heritage. There is a saying among Aborigines that he who loses his dreaming is lost. The arrival of Europeans almost ended the traditional Aboriginal way of life, and today most live in cities and towns or in isolated settlements near tribal lands. In the outback and urban communities, though, elders are making every effort to ensure that their children are told the secrets of the DrCamtirne so they do not lose touch with their religious and spiritual values.

Although few continue their nomadic ways, many of Australia's Aboriginal people still speak traditional languages at home, and there is a growing interest among younger people to learn more about the life, art, stories and music of their forefathers. In recent years, Australia has become more sensitive to the plight of Aborigines, resulting in increased health and educational services, greater recognition of Aboriginal land rights and a growing appreciation of Aboriginal culture.