Start with a penny, maybe find some silver in the street.

I finally found something larger than a penny. I found one shiny dime on the sidewalk. I also stood back and watched a police escort drive ahead of a jazz funeral march. I'd never seen one of these before in real life, only on television or in the movies; I never expected to see this in Manhattan.

There were robed clerics holding high colorful religious standards of some kind and a matched pair of silver white horses, with white head plumes, drawing a while lacquered hearse. The hearse had glass sides and interior fringed drapes which revealed the black casket contained within.

A half-block long crowd of mourners, carrying black umbrellas and fluttering white handkerchiefs, marched behind a small brass band playing a jazz gospel song. It was very moving.