Archive for April, 2009
Pennsylvania’s little coast
Pennsylvania has only 63 miles of coastline along Lake Erie. I caught a glimpse of the lake through the floor to ceiling windows of the state welcome center.
Day 2; Niagara Falls…sort of
Unfortunately this was about the best view I had during my morning in Niagara Falls, CA. It was a warm day for late March and all the ice was melting. I didn’t actually see the falls until I got within twenty feet of the edge. Oh well.
Norman Rockwell Museum
The Norman Rockwell museum should be a stop for any illustrator within traveling distance. 323 of Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post Covers are on display, along interesting examples of his earlier illustrations and later paintings, including the Four Freedoms.
Mission House Museum
From the Mission House Website:
Originally located atop Prospect Hill, this National Historic Landmark was carefully disassembled, moved, and restored by Miss Mabel Choate at its present location on Main Street between 1926 and 1927. The house contains an outstanding collection of eighteenth-century American furniture and decorative arts.
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
Founded in 1834, for its first 50 years St. Paul’s was housed in a wooden Gothic-Revival structure on the same site as the present church. The old church was taken down in 1883 and replaced by the existing church that was designed by Charles F. McKim and Stanford White…
South to Stockbridge
I followed the course of the Connecticut river as it wanders its way South through New Hampshire and Vermont. The snow gradually disappeared from the ground, melting into muddy fields, or congealing into blue ice under the protective shadows of young birches. Part of I91 cuts through hills of blue slate – I’ve always been [...]
Orford, along the river
In Orford, brick or white clapboard Federal and Greek homes line the Eastern bank of the upper Connecticut river.
A House on the ridge
The small rural community of Orford has always been my favorite spot of the shortcut. It’s easy to image the narrow two-laned road that runs down the center of the village as a beat dirt path out of any Currier and Ives print.
