December 03, 2004
Explorers Club for the aspiring Indiana Joneses
Real-life and armchair adventurers may want to pay a visit to the Explorers Club, which is written up in today's New York Times. behind the walls of the brick and limestone Upper East Side town house, members snack on scorpions, rattlesnakes and crickets, strolling among the club's six floors stocked with prizes such as a stuffed polar bear, the world's largest elephant and a three-foot whale phallus. Dignified? Very. The building is filled with the spirit and artifacts of explorers and club members like Adm. Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jane Goodall, Neil Armstrong and Roy Chapman Andrews, the naturalist and, to many fans, real-life model for the "Indiana Jones" films. The club is celebrating its centennial year and has 3,000 members and 30 chapters worldwide. If you don't muster up to the advanced knowledge of the natural sciences, exploration or conservation required for membership, you can at least pretend by attending any of their public events. (Link found via Gadling.)
December 3, 2004 01:38 PM in Sightsology, Upper East Side
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