Reading and Roaming
VISITING NORTH CAROLINA How I spent my summer vacation. Wrong season, how I spent Thanksgiving week. The Chief Penguin and I were in North Carolina to visit my sisters and their families and spent time in both Greensboro and Chapel Hill with brisk walks to Greensboro’s Bog and Centennial Gardens, excursions to Winston-Salem, to the marvelous McIntyre’s …
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STUNNING ART We initially signed up for the 7:30 A.M. small group tour of the Vatican Museums. But, upon further reflection, it seemed too much with jet lag et al, to go that early. So we changed the tour time to a more civilized 9:45 and then walked to the meeting point. Seeing the art was worthwhile, but …
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ART: FIBER, BRONZE, PAINT On our recent trip to New York, we spent some time at the Met Breuer. As it happened, two featured exhibits were by female artists, one a retrospective of a living artist’s career and the other a focus on the fiber art and sculpture of an Indian artist. I was captivated by Phenomenal …
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JAUNTING TO WATERVILLE We know a few folks who’ve worked at or graduated from Colby College, but had never visited the campus. It’s located about ten minutes from downtown Waterville on Mayflower Hill—a pleasant spread of green dotted with red brick buildings and athletic fields. A guard at another museum (which will remain nameless) told us that …
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