Love the photos and prose, Christine. Many well composed, seriously artful shots. Reads as though wearing, but with a satisfying record.
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Aguila" <[email protected]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:30:08 PM Subject: road trip pics Hi Everyone: Just a few road trip pics—nothing great. We visited a lot of author homes, but unfortunately no interior photography was allowed, so I spared you the exterior shots of the houses. I do include Mark Twain’s Study—an octagon shaped building specifically built for him at his in-laws’ farm near Elmira, NY—built so he could write undisturbed during his summer visits to the farm. This building is now owned by Elmira College and located on campus. There was no student ambassador around to let us in, but I took some photos through the windows and converted to BW. They are included here. Visiting the author homes was great—fun to stand in Emerson’s study, the bedrooms where Little Women was written (Concord, MA) and that tiny women in Amherst, MA penned all those delightful poems, and, of course, seeing the Seven Gables that inspired the House of Seven Gables was fun as well (Salem, MA). Twain’s home in Hartford, CT is absolutely amazing and very well preserved, but interestingly, the Emerson family STILL owns Emerson’s home: the tour guide informed us, “We all work for the Emerson family.” Something really cool about that. Sara Orne Jewett’s house in South Berwick, ME is also a great house, but the town is not much to speak of. I’d never seen Philly, so we did all the historical stuff in one day, then left early the next for Hartford et al. Spent a few days in Boston—Freedom Trail, Boat ride, and Museum of Fine Arts—the Copley collection there is fantastic—then headed for Salem, MA. We also paid homage to author tombstones, but I spared you those photos as well, though Sleepy Hollow was amazing—many pilgrims travel to these markers and leave stones, pencils, pens, other trinkets—lots of small stones at Dickinson’s marker. Chronic dappled lighting made the markers somewhat of challenge to photograph. Famous people seem to love pretty spots near trees. We traveled for 16 days by car, moved on nearly every 1-3 days. As I look back now it was a dizzying pace, and the driving challenging: I nearly got us killed at a small round-about in Concord, MA. And we drove 12 hours straight from Elmira, NY to Chicago. The drive home started early, and we had the road nearly to ourselves, enjoying the quiet, morning fog, and the lovely tree studded hills and valleys of NY. But then a large doe jumped out in front of us. Fortunately, Darrel swerved right, the doe kept left, leaving no damage to car, person, or animal. I gushed over Darrel for his quick response, and the trip continued uneventful, that is, until we were literally 5 minutes from home. At a speed about 15 miles per hour, I turned a corner for the final 5 minute stretch home, only to have to slow down to let one of our neighborhood deer, traveling about .5 miles per hour, cross the road. Uncanny! Anyway, here are the pics! Cheers, Christine http://www.caguila.com/pdmllit/index.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
