Hi. I wanted to wish anyone who's celebrating Sukkot a wonderful set of days...

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From when I was 7 to 46 I lived in two about 2/3rd"s Jewish Neighborhoods in Manhattan: '60 - '00, or '01. [An aside - re the High Holy days on the weekdays we gentiles loved having a sort of
off-school day in school bc with about 1/2 - 2/3 (not everyone observed ) of our Jewish friends, and classmates out our teachers couldn't really teach anything new! ]

I used to love watching the Sukkahs being built. Always an architecture, and structures fan so it was fascinating. If I didn't know which day it started I'd know bc I'd hear the voices, and sound of the metal pipes being put together not too far from my different windows.
I loved the pine, fir tree branches used for the roof. The singing was pretty nice.
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Since I mentioned I love architecture & structures; there was an outdoor exhibit back around ? '15, maybe earlier in NYC's Union Square of modern, or very creative, and differently designed Sukkahs.
It was so Interesting, creative, often beautiful!

I've also aways loved exhibits, challenge-games, or competitions (whether for prizes, or fun) where everyone is given certain materials to start with often with some set of parameters, and they then add some of their own items into the final piece.
This type of contest was done before TV cooking show competitions, before the internet in specialty magazines; in my case jewelry making magazines.
This exhibit so fit the bill.

And sorry for anyone's Sukkah structure that got messed up in yesterday's deluge!