Digested week: faded photos in war museum on the Hudson feel all too real

An exhibit invites visitors to imagine how it may have felt to live on the brink of nuclear annihilation. I don't want to

Monday

The nearest thing New York has to the Imperial War Museum in London is the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, built on and around the USS Intrepid, a hulking great aircraft carrier parked at Pier 86 on the Hudson River. It is the obligation of every school age-child in greater New York to attend this museum at least once a year, and on the last day of mid-winter recess, we do.