New York

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="b2dfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>welcome to the Prebble family website</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="welcome to the Prebble family website"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="American Odyssey"><U><B><IMG SRC="af50e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><A HREF="id259.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Costa Rica"><U><B><IMG SRC="af60e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id122.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Washington"><U><B><IMG SRC="af70e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="b2ed2b03.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> We entered the Hudson river very early on the morning of September 9th and in the dawn light the lady welcomed us as she has so many down the years.  Between 1820 and 1920, thirty four million people immigrated to the United States and for many this was their first glimpse of America.  The words of Emma Lazarus  are still some of the most poignant in the language.</div> <div> <I><B>"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."</B></I></div> <div> As the two tugs labored to nudge the great ship into her berth we glanced up at the twin towers which we were to see later for the last time  from the roof of the Empire State Building.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>New York</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="402fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="405fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="407fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="409fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>