- Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker community of Mount Lebanon and the army cadets of West Point Military Academy.
- Dickens had five days in New York before his ship sailed and he used it to see more of the state. He went up the Hudson River to West Point. Margolyes goes to visit the military academy and meets the cadets. Perhaps the major difference is that now there are also female cadets. About 16% of the 4,000 cadets are female. Margolyes meets a few of them. She is there when they get word that a recent graduate was killed in Iraq.
Margolyes is given a tour of the Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham by Jerry Grant.
On 7 June, Dickens, Catherine and Anne Brown sailed from New York for Liverpool. Dickens booked passage on the packet ship, "George Washington." After his unpleasant experience on the Britannia he wanted to return via sailing vessel.
Dickens returned to America in 1867-68 for a reading tour. One of the venues was the Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Margolyes finishes her tour of America with a special meeting at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library on Saturday 18 December 2004. Everyone who appears in the series, from Boston to St. Louis to Montreal, was invited and many of them made the journey to be with Margolyes for this once in a lifetime event. She is alone on stage, and gives a riveting account of her travels.
Bert Hornback is an emeritus professor from the University of Michigan who has spent a lifetime studying Dickens and has strong view with what Dickens expected to find in America. He hoped to find a society that took care of its poor and he saw the country taking care of poor people and homeless people...so long as they were white. Hornback says that Dickens was changed by going to America. The novels after the first American trip became much more serious.
And her journey changed Margolyes too. She says she is more careful now when she meets people; not quick to write people off "because they are republicans, or Christians or fundamentalists or farmers, or smokers." She will remember this journey the rest of her life.
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