tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78740827358107244902024-03-14T15:41:37.120+00:00Jenni in LondonJennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-64562910573636670212017-12-31T15:59:00.002+00:002017-12-31T15:59:50.864+00:00Awaiting the New Year, part two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The ten days between the Winter Solstice begins and ends with the revelry of Christmas and the New Year, but the days in-between are the Janus days, looking both backward and forward. The slippery slope where dreams of ambitious plans compete with the memory of past abandoned, or derailed, plans. Approaching 70 in the New Year, I am most familiar with derailed plans after the past two years of unwelcome moments, the untuned instruments and the static on the radio, the we are not prepared to hear. The heavy weather of fortune has turned and abated for us at the moment, but storms, personal, national and international, are always on the horizon in these tricky times. We always enter into the unknown.<br />
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The grey skies and the occasional "oblique light" of the northern latitudes is very depressing as winter moves into the early months of the year. I am writing at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a dark room. The light is beginning to come back, but that is hard to remember. By the end of this week, we will have added one minute of light in the morning and six minutes in the afternoon. If you are a photosensitive sleeper like I am, and have no need to rise early for work or family, the darkness until after 8 am is a seasonal luxury. The miraculous side of winter is how life goes on for plants and animals who have adapted in ways to be ready for the arrival of spring. The bulbs and plants and shrubs and trees have set their flower and leaf buds, ready for the proper hours of sun to return. Very soon the British daffodil season will be on us as a precursor to real spring when the crops are harvested on the Channel Islands still warmed, for now, by the North Atlantic Drift of the Gulf Stream. Last evening, I heard "the heart-chilling scream of the courted vixen" as we ate supper. Hampstead has an abundance of foxes, and unlike the first year we lived here, I am used to their noisy mating season, and familiar with their charming kits in the spring.<br />
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I read Julian Beach's poem <i>Lux Brumalis </i>two days ago in <i><b>Winter</b></i>, part of a four volume seasonal anthology of prose and poetry edited by Melissa Harrison for England's Wildlife Trust. I began with <b><i>Spring</i></b> late last winter and tried to read a selection every morning through <b><i>Summer</i></b> and <i><b>Autumn</b></i> as the year unfolded. In two months, I will start all over again, as commanded by the closing lines of <i>Lux</i>. I am embarrassed to admit this: I am not a poetry person, in fact I have sometimes wondered what is the point of poetry when a full sentence with subject and verb would communicate ideas much more clearly. When I read <i>Lux</i>, I knew this was special; when I went back and reread it several times, I discovered that I finally understood the point of poetry. Perhaps this is a one-off, and I will only ever truly appreciate Julian Beach. His website <a href="https://julianbeachwriting.wordpress.com/">https://julianbeachwriting.wordpress.com</a> is packed with many beautiful poems.<br />
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Melissa Harrison's anthologies are available here in the UK everywhere, and in the US according to Amazon.com, but they are very much geared to English nature and landscapes. The beautiful covers are enough to justify having them on the coffee table.<br />
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-77242335067297334762017-12-30T20:25:00.000+00:002017-12-30T20:37:05.587+00:00Awaiting the New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Lux Brumalis</span></i></b><br />
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<b>I</b><br />
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I am the trumpet muted<br />
the bow unrosined<br />
and the fiddle unstrung.<br />
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I am oblique sunlight<br />
pale illumination of<br />
a world undernourished.<br />
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I am the broadcast interrupted<br />
dead air, station leeching<br />
anaemic, into station.<br />
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<b>II</b><br />
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I am the garnet shock<br />
of rosehip on frost<br />
the robin's titian flare.<br />
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I am the icebound babble<br />
observed, not heard<br />
under brittle silver.<br />
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I am the creeping metabolism<br />
of the trout, wintering<br />
deep below the current.<br />
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I am the heart-chilling scream<br />
of the courted vixen<br />
the crowing pheasant's boast<br />
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the snipe's 'peep-peep'<br />
defying, folding distance<br />
across the whispering marsh.<br />
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I am the withered husk<br />
on the naked briar<br />
the sap retreating.<br />
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I am the fiery Saturnalia<br />
the blacksmith spark, rising<br />
then extinguished, spent.<br />
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I am the otherworld<br />
beyond the black perimeter<br />
of the sheltering blaze.<br />
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I am the chiselled gravestone<br />
of the old year in repose<br />
and the muttered obsequies.<br />
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I am Janus, churlish sentry<br />
clinging to yesterday<br />
wary of tomorrow.<br />
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<b>III</b><br />
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I am the child yet unfathered<br />
the page from a book<br />
you read once, forgot<br />
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but must surely read again.<br />
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Julian Beach, 2016<br />
<a href="https://julianbeachwriting.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/lux-brumalis/">https://julianbeachwriting.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/lux-brumalis/</a><br />
<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-79486934337314892572017-12-27T21:21:00.000+00:002017-12-27T21:21:43.521+00:00Christmas 2017<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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2017 was a year of ups and downs and saves. Not very many ups, but the downs and saves were enough to let us crawl into 2018 later this week.<br />
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A down was not seeing our grandchildren in Hingham, Massachusetts at all in 2017. Trips were called off or cancelled for a variety of health reasons. The save is that those health issues seem to be resolved.<br />
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An unreserved up is spending time with our grandchildren in the Kent seaside town of Margate. We spent Christmas and Boxing Day with them. I made Bob get out of bed at 6:30 a.m. in our bed-and-breakfast hotel to travel the few blocks to see Jonas's 2 year old face when he first discovered what it is Santa Claus does overnight whilst children are asleep in their beds dreaming of sugarplums. I think this photo was worth the early rise. His sister Dervla is only 1 year old, so she slept in this year. Next year will be her moment of wonder.Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-28930522123004055532014-11-16T16:50:00.000+00:002014-11-16T16:50:56.930+00:00England's Greatest Painter? For the past year or so, we have been very remiss in keeping up with the exhibitions in London's museums. In my head, I tally up a remorse list of exhibitions I have missed over the years, and I'm afraid I have added quite a few entries to the list recently. I can't even come up with a reasonable excuse other than the lame one that time seemed to fly by so quickly I could hardly keep up with anything, even exhibitions that were on display for months, but were gone before I remembered they were happening. There are so many exhibitions to see at the moment, we decided to attack them with gusto today. No excuses for being tired, it might rain, or it's a bit chilly today.<br />
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Two weekends ago we saw the film <i>Mr Turner</i>, relying on the 100% assurance of every film critic in London this was the film of the year to see. Bob hated the film; I found its pretentious arty-ness insufferable. (Both Timothy Spall, as Mr Turner, and the cinematography are great.) The film is a bio-pic of Turner's last years. He lived a very long time —75 years— and painted until the very end. Audience critics (who are no where near 100% in their appreciation) complain there is no plot, just a series of vignettes haphazardly thrown together. There is truth in the no plot critique, but after a day or so I decided the plot is hidden in the vignettes, which can each be seen as an evidence of loss as Mr Turner ages, the loss of family, friends, reputation, mobility, memory, ability, one by one, and finally loss of life. When I explained this insight to Bob, he said, a plot that needs 24 hours of work to understand and then needs to be explained, is not a plot. I couldn't entirely disagree.<br />
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Since we had seen the film I felt we should go the Tate Britain to see the accompanying exhibition of <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-late-turner-painting-set-free">Turner's Last Works</a>. Bob likes Turner's work more than I like them. And Turner did so many . . . and he willed them to the nation, so they are easy to find in order to fill rooms and rooms. Jonathan Jones, art critic of <i>The Guardian,</i> fast becoming the worst newspaper in the world, says Turner is England's greatest artist, as the film's trailer declares, but I will add that last month, Jonathan Jones also called the Tower of London's poppy display "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/oct/28/tower-of-london-poppies-ukip-remembrance-day">fake, trite and inward-looking</a>" along with "deeply aestheticised, prettified, and toothless." So what does he know. His written <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/31/world-war-one-poppies-memorial-cameron">response</a> the following week to the outcry of commenters who were aghast was even dimmer with an explanation that he was not speaking from "trendy cynicism," but from his preference for Otto Dix's skull paintings. Jones offers the suggestion the Tower's moat should have been filled with blood, bones, and barbed wire for a real memorial. Perhaps people will keep that in mind for the display needed in 2018 to top this year's poppies.<br />
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As we toured the rooms of the exhibition, all I could think of was Henning Mankell's police detective Kurt Wallander, whose father spent his life painting the same painting . . . some with a grouse, some without. I guess it's not fair to blame the artist when his style has been appropriated to decorate motel rooms and dentist's offices a century later. Turner is a brilliant painter, and his watercolours are even better, but is the sky always the same colour every day? Jonathan Jones will be happy to know the Tate's galleries were nearly as crowded today as the walkways around the Tower were last week. So perhaps some of those he lambasted for enjoying "popular art" are also prepared to enjoy "fine art."<br />
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After we finished at the Tate, we headed to the V&A for the chance to compare and contrast Turner with England's other great painter of the first half of the 19th century, <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-constable-the-making-of-a-master/">John Constable</a>. Poor Mr Constable was always the loser in his rivalry with Mr Turner. Born only a year apart, Turner began his art training at the Royal Academy when he was 14 years old, and became an R.A. less than 10 years later. Meanwhile, Constable's father kept John at home to help run the family's prosperous grain milling and coal supply business, and would not let him begin his studies at the Academy until he was nearly 25 years old. His rivalry with Turner and his innovative painting techniques kept Constable from becoming an R.A. until he was in his mid-50s. As a final insult, Constable died at 60, depriving him of the last decade and a half of painting enjoyed so effusively by Turner which filled the walls of the Tate's exhibition space.<br />
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Over the past few years, the V&A has had some poorly curated shows, but happily <i>Constable, the Making of a Master</i> is not one of them. He was a meticulous painter who wanted to bring back landscape painting to the standards of the French painters Poussin and Claude Lorrain, especially Claude Lorrain. The exhibition takes you through the steps Constable employed to meet his own exacting standards. The <i>plein air</i> pencil sketching and oil sketches were blocked into larger paintings in the studio. Detailed studies of landscape elements — the flora and especially the clouds in the sky — were done to depict them accurately in the final work. This was an era when science was burgeoning, and Constable believed artists needed to be accurate because landscape painting could be seen as a facet of the scientific study of the natural world. He used measured grids and glass overlays to get the correct proportions of landscape features within a scene. When preparing his large paintings for the Royal Academy's Annual Show, he did full size sketches of the 6-foot paintings.<br />
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The best part of the exhibition is the large number of oil sketches that are on display. The V&A has so many Constables because in 1888 his surviving daughter Isabel donated the contents of his studio to the Museum. The collection included notebooks, and sketchbooks, and the supremely beautiful little oil sketches Constable did in the open air. Some are always on display, but this exhibition has many more on the walls. My very favourite, of a elm <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/322">tree trunk</a> (that I initially thought was a photograph when I saw it years ago, and then realised the camera had not yet been invented) turns out to have been Lucian Freud's favourite too. For an homage to Constable exhibition mounted in Paris about 10 years ago, Freud produced an etching of a tree trunk because as an art student he tried to copy Constable's sketch and gave up. The French have always appreciated Constable, much more than the English did during his life time, and despite the fact he never crossed the Channel. The French bought his work and awarded him honorary medals. His <i>plein air</i> painting influenced the mid-century French landscapes of Courbet and Corot, the forerunners of Impressionism and other modern movements in France that followed.<br />
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I am not a fan of calculating who is great, who is greater, who is the greatest. Clearly I am biased toward Constable in this match. But what a great afternoon . . . and it didn't rain and it wasn't very cold and we had good reason to be tired when we got home.<br />
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-32204659994304592902014-11-16T16:37:00.000+00:002014-11-16T16:37:26.534+00:00October Autumn to Finish<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the reunion, we headed up the river to Poughkeepsie to visit my high school classmate Charlotte and her husband John on another perfect autumn weather day. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poughkeepsie is the centre of a burgeoning arts centre amidst the small towns along the mid-Hudson River region. We had a superb dinner here at the Ice House set in a park overlooking the river. A special treat was sharing dinner with another high school classmate Vinessa who was visiting from Virginia. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Picking up reams of tourist information leaflets, as we always do, we realised there was much too much to do with only a day and a half in Poughkeepsie. The most popular local sight is probably the extensive Hyde Park estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. Ken Burn's TV series on the Roosevelts had just aired so we thought Hyde Park would be much too crowded on a holiday weekend. And we had spent a day at Hyde Park many years ago when we looked at Bard College with Megan. The alternative Bob chose was Locust Grove, because it was the home of Samuel F.B. Morse and because it was very close to our Holiday Inn Express. And what an inspired choice he made. The 1851 Italianate style house, all the rage in mid-century America, . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">.<span style="font-size: small;"> . . was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, the top-drawer architect of the moment, whose illustrations and designs popularised the Picturesque styles that still characterise the new suburbs and exurbs that began to spring up on the edges of America's booming cities. Morse knew who to turn to for his country house in Poughkeepsie because he was straight out of a contemporary preppie handbook, if one had existed. Dad was Jedediah Morse, a conservative Boston preacher and author of the first American Geography textbook. Samuel was educated at Andover and Yale, and despite his father's disapproval of art as a career path, Morse went to London to study at the Royal Academy with Benjamin West. Returning to the States he supported himself as a painter, doing portraits of Presidents and honored figures such as the Lafayette. He was a founder of the National Academy of Design, modeled on the English Royal Academy, and when New York University was opened in the early 1830s, Morse was appointed professor of painting and sculpture, the first Fine Arts appointment in the United States. Unfortunately, his political views included support of slavery, opposition to foreign immigration, and virulent anti-Catholicism. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Locust Grove is surrounded by 200 acres of beautifully landscaped land on the bluff overlooking the river from the house. The estate was saved from any intrusive development after the Morse family left. The property was rented to the Young family who eventually bought the estate, and their daughter Annette, who never married, lived in the house until her death in 1975. She set up a trust and a foundation to maintain the house and protect the property after her death.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . and beautiful even in the autumn season of dying.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> . . . and still filled with seasonal crops.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even with all that family history and drama . . . I didn't even mention Jedediah's losing battle to protect Harvard's seminary from a Unitarian takeover or his brush with promoting the Illuminati conspiracy as a threat to the nation . . . and success as a (xenophobic, racist) professional fine artist, it was the telegraph that got the results. In an age when polymathism was still possible, Morse is said to have had an interest in electromagnetism dating back to his years as a Yale student. The 1830s was the decade of electromagnetic breakthroughs, and in 1832, on a ship returning to America from Europe, Morse had discussions with another passenger that gave him the idea for a single wire telegraph. Others were also experimenting with similar ideas and submitting patent applications at that time, and Morse did not receive a secure patent until 1847. Just in time to buy his Poughkeepsie land and hire A.J. Davis to create a magical design reminiscent of the Italian countryside on the bluffs of the Hudson River. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apparently the internet and social media are not the first new communication technology to worry about privacy issues. The adoption of the "Morse" code which is an adaption of the code designed by Morse, and easily read by any trained clerk, gave rise to coded messaging if this book on display at Locust Grove is evidence. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next we come to Poughkeepsie's number one must-do . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . a rehabbed railroad bridge . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . that lets you walk in the air over the city, looking downstream . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . and upstream . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . and across at the patchwork quilt of autumn leaves . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . standing over the water as it flows under you . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A fire in 1974 damaged the bridge and led to its closure. For decades it was a rusting relic of the past until local citizens formed a group which successfully brought together private donors with state and federal aid to make the project. The Walkway opened in 2009. Ever since Charlotte began posting photos of the bridge, I have looked forward to the chance to see it and walk over it. Well this time we only walked half way because we had to be on our way back to Hingham. But we didn't have nearly enough time to explore other villages and to visit other historic houses associated with the Hudson River painters of the 19th century. So we'll be back.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We wound our way back to Hingham with some stops along the way. </span><span style="font-size: small;">I hadn't thought about this until our friend Deborah in New Jersey said last week, "You are always stopping at places. When I go somewhere, I just want to get where I am going." after I had mentioned our stop at the Bush-Holley House in Greenwich, Connecticut on our way to New Jersey. Perhaps it comes with living in a small country. When places are not very far apart, there always seems like time can be found to stop on the way. Also, we have become delighted with the treasures to be found in small local museums.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Reminders of American art with the Cos Cob School and the Hudson River School had piqued our interest, and Bob found two museums that offered American art collections of interest. The<a href="http://www.mattatuckcollections.org/"> Mattatuck Museum</a> in Waterbury is a beautiful museum with a collection of Connecticut art , along with much else, and where we also had a wonderful lunch. I just loved their decorative painting on the museum's back wall.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The real treasure trove was The <a href="http://www.nbmaa.org/">New Britain Museum of American Art</a>, a museum that no one has ever heard of that houses a wonderful collection of American art from the itinerants of the 18th century to today's artists in nicely laid out chronological galleries. And it has been there since 1903!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I knew it was a good collection because it has a Fairfield Porter on display. We're still waiting for everyone else to realise he is the greatest American painter of the 20th century. There was also a special exhibition of quilts to see, but where photos were not permitted.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in Hingham, and Bob has flown back to London, so there is time to enjoy beautiful days with friends. Nantasket Beach with Anne . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . take advantage of waves from Hurricane Gonzalo in Bermuda.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And a Walking Tour of Hingham's oldest burial ground behind the Old Ship Meeting House with Sunny and Charlotte on her lead.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like any old cemetery, stones are moved around to accommodate changes. .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The site of the 17th century hill fort built to protect citizens from Indian attack during King Phillip's War. Five Hingham houses were burned by the Indians during the war, and there was at least one fatality in the fighting.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lavinia's home school curriculum allows trips into Boston on the <br />commuter boat from Hingham Shipyard.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lavinia the builder . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . at the Science Museum.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Fridays, she is dropped off at the New England Aquarium on the waterfront for a marine science programme giving Megan and I the chance to do some exploring in downtown Boston. Looking for explanatory signs . . . </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And dropping in at the Boston Atheneum to see a wonderful exhibition of World War I posters from around the world. The Museum of Fine Arts is also having a poster display, but the Atheneum's is far better. We had a chat with the curator who happened to be there, and he is a big fan of Hampstead and the Parish Church burial ground.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And a visit to Boston's Holocaust Memorial which was built shortly before we left Hingham in 1998. I had the chance to visit it once back then, but haven't been since then. The designer is the brother-in-law of one of my London quilting group friends. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . whose glass walls are incised with six million identification numbers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And finally the day has arrived! Eloise is 4 years old!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And since Halloween is nearly here, the second party of the day is the Old Colony Montessori Halloween Party. A pretty Kitty Witch . . .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And a beautiful Elsa ready to roll.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I fly back to London tonight, so we spend our last lunch at Hingham's national hot spot: the Wahlburger corner at the Shipyard, site of the Wahlberger Family restaurant hub and location of the TV reality show . . . now in its second season . . . and available to watch in London on Sky digital! Megan said the traffic last summer was impossible as people queued in their cars to have their photos taken in front of Wahlburgers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We ate our fantastic lobster rolls and chips across the way at Alma Nove, named for Mama Wahlberg. Megan informed me that celebrity chef Paul Wahlberg was sitting right behind me, and I could hear a bit of the conversation about the TV shooting schedule. Paul is a phenomenal chef having made Bridgeman's in Nantasket Beach the go-to restaurant before moving his operation to the new Hingham Shipyard development. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bob's 50th high school reunion over Columbus Day Weekend was a good reason to book a trip back to New England in the autumn. The children have grown at least a year or two since we saw them back in May. Lavinia is in 2nd grade, home schooled for two days a week, attending an alternative school two days a week, and on Friday's, she alternates between home school programs at the Museum of Fine Arts and the New England Aquarium in Boston. Christian is in Kindergarten and Eloise is in pre-school at a Montessori school in Hingham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hingham has had a dry summer according to Megan, and the leaves are only just beginning to turn. And they seem to be turning tree by tree, so there are spectacular trees, but no spectacular panoramas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hingham is having a high profile at the moment. The Wahlburgers reality TV show is in its second season </span><span style="font-size: small;">(and even broadcast in London), but the 19th century bucket and toy industry </span><span style="font-size: small;">has inspired a book and an exhibition at Old Sturbridge Village. The Hersey family was among the group of emigrants who arrived from England in the mid-1630s and established the coastal town of Hingham, 17 miles south of Boston. This was 15 years after the Pilgrims established their town in Plymouth farther south along the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The international popularity of the buckets made millionaires of several members of the Hersey family </span><span style="font-size: small;">back in the day according to the exhibition research. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">. . . where historic buildings have been gathered to present a living history of New England's </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">After a week in Hingham we headed off for a week in the New York Metropolitan area, although never into Manhattan itself, although we were able to pick out the city's newest high rise tower looking across the Meadowlands from the New Jersey Turnpike. It's very tall. On our way to New Jersey to spend the night with friends, we stopped in Greenwich, Connecticut to visit the Bush Holley House Museum. Built by a wealthy farmer, the house dates back to the 1790s, but in the 19th century, it became a boarding house, and by the 1890s it was a favourite spot to escape the city for a group of painters interested in the Impressionist style of European artists. The Cos Cob painters, as they were called collectively, included Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, and Elmer MacRae, who married the Holley's daughter and became landlord of the boarding house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The view of I-95 from the porch of the Bush-Holley House. The route of I-95 was altered to save the house from demolition in the 1960s. The glimpse of Cos Cob's harbour that can be seen under the highway is a peek at the once lovely view appreciated by the artists who boarded here .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Elmer MacRae was one of the organizers of the famous 1911 Armory Show in New York that introduced European Modernism to the American audience. MacRae's painting was radically different after the Armory Show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The display rooms at the museum are divided between the artist boarding house rooms c.1900 and the early farmhouse rooms c.1800. This is the attic where Farmer Bush's female slaves might have slept. The male slaves would have slept in an outbuilding. The first US Census, mandated by the new Constitution, listed 9 slaves living in the household. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bob's reunion was underway at a massive corporate hotel on the New York-Connecticut border amidst the massive campuses of world headquarters of countless financial mega-businesses. The financial landscape of suburban office parks — so much easier for the chauffeur to get the CEO to work in the morning —would have just been emerging as a great idea in planning history 50 years ago when the Class of 1964 was graduating. Despite sitting in a tight network of highways, no one could find their way around the area because road signage was so lacking. Undoubtedly on the presumption that if you didn't know where you were, then you certainly didn't belong here. In order to escape until the evening dinner, we headed south to New Rochelle to finally see the Thomas Paine Cottage. Thomas Paine is a particular hero of Bob's. We have followed the Thomas Paine trail in Lewes, Sussex and attended several plays written around Paine's experiences and contributions, but we had never found the Paine Cottage open for visiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is the original saltbox style cottage where Paine lived from 1802 to 1806. After he was no longer welcome in his homeland of England, nor his adopted country of France, and not entirely accepted in the United States when he was denied the right to vote for not being a citizen. Paine died in New York City in 1809 and buried in New Rochelle. Ten years later, radical journalist Thomas Cobbett had his body disinterred and returned to England, but the commemorative reburial never happened and the body lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The house contains several galleries devoted to the local history of New Rochelle, including information on its role as a transfer hub for the Underground Railway helping runaway slaves on their way to freedom in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then we headed west to the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers with its views of the Hudson Palisades. The Museum includes the Hudson Riverama, a surrogate trip up the river from mouth to source . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And if that isn't enough, we were there for the opening day of a remarkable exhibit called <i>Strut</i> which showcases the image of the peacock in art and design and commerce especially since the Arts and Crafts movements of the late 19th century. This photo is pathetically out of focus, but the gallery's guard was very strictly enforcing the "no photographs" rule. </span></div>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-90687556265213152962014-05-21T15:34:00.001+01:002014-05-21T15:40:32.047+01:00A Day in BostonWhat a wonderful time to visit Boston. The weather has been sunny and cool. The rain is pretty much confined to after dark hours this week. And the legendary Pilgrim-Roy Quilt Collection is on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts until the end of July. Random photos here and no comments, other than I didn't take a photo of every quilt . . . but that's because I bought the book.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dedham Pottery, most famous for their rabbit designs, but I love those turtles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturday Evening Girls pottery painting club sponsored by the progressive Paul Revere Pottery . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . for young immigrant women through North End settlement houses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Smibert's 1738 view of Boston. Thanks to melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica,<br />
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a walk down to the refurbished harbor . . . </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . past the Children's Museum with Arthur (also a Hingham resident) atop<br />
and the Boston Tea Party replica boat, to the Hingham Commuter boat and a cruise home.</td></tr>
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Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-66108354619735001772014-05-09T08:52:00.000+01:002014-05-09T09:23:13.366+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 9<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Our last day in Devon meant we needed to take another walk before driving back to London tomorrow. So off to Countisbury Hill on the Exmoor coast rife with Iron Age hill forts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The National Trust path is along a steep combe . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with stands of . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . mossy trees . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and always sheep . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . some of whom don't make it past predators or through winter . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . but we made it easily back to Countisbury church and the car park . . . </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . to a fantastic lunch at the Staghunters Inn in Brendon . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a drive across the desolate heath of Exmoor . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . covered with gorse and bracken.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-50066785910493400632014-05-08T21:11:00.001+01:002014-05-09T09:21:36.749+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 8<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Another blue sky day led us to explore the old fishing village of Clovelly. The village is managed by a local trust which charges an admission fee to all visitors who enter through a giant visitor centre souvenir shop with an exit to the cobbled path with picturesque views leading down the cliff . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . on one of the steepest slopes I have ever seen. The charming <br />
old houses and shops cling to the hillside . . . </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">. . . until the final steps that wind down to the beach and quay. Once upon a time, Clovelly supported a herring fishing fleet. The men went out daily to fish, returning to the quay where the women collected the herring from the nets, carried them up to the road where the visitor centre now stands. They were picked up by wagons, carried to the train for transport to the markets of London and other industrial cities. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then on to the church in Hartland dedicated to another local saint . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . Nectan, a Celtic hermit, whose statue is still in a niche in the tower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">The church was built on the site of an abbey founded by Gytha, mother of Harold the last Saxon king, who lost the Battle of Hastings to his Norman cousin William the Conqueror a few years later. The church is a treasure house of art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The carved Norman font.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old panels stored away in an attic storage room when it was too late for God or anyone to save either James.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful ceiling and carved chancel screen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The embroidered altar cloth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flemish glass roundels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And some very old carving</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the day we just had time to stop in at the small local North Devon Maritime Museum with interesting dioramas of local history. And a fascinating display of film and photos of military preparations for the D-Day landings done on local beaches because they were similar to the target beaches in Normandy. Problems like how to transport heavy tanks and trucks through water onto the beaches, the proper footwear for soldiers to wade ashore through muddy sand, and efforts to stun the soldiers on shore to give the invading allies time to unload people and weaponry were all tested here. The most dramatic film was of a wheel loaded with explosives to be rolled on to the beach to produce smoke to cover the landing which on its final test, hit a bump in the sand, went wildly spinning out of control exploding as it rolled into watching personnel and followed by a dog who thought it was all great fun. </td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-61950123157494157942014-05-07T09:48:00.001+01:002014-05-09T09:19:33.785+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 7<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Under a threatening sky, we continued our tour of North Devon churches. Swimbridge is notable for its "hunting parson" Jack Russell who was appointed in 1833 and served for 46 years, keeping a pack of hounds at the ready for a hunt after delivering his weekly sermon. As a student at Oxford he bought a pup off the butcher, crossed it with a local dog, and the Jack Russell breed was born.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church's most famous art object is an 18th century canopied font . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with 16th century carved panels used for the doors that hide the bowl.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although I liked the knitted Last Supper much more.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Chittlehampton sits in a valley with walls so steep I don't know how the sheep can <br />
stand still and graze without pitching down the slope.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">The church contains a real medieval shrine to a local saint. Hieritha was hacked to death at the urging of her pagan stepmother, and the shrine was established at the holy spring which appeared where she fell dead. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">A statue of St. Hieritha for pilgrims to venerate would have been in place in this niche, but was destroyed <br />
in the wave of Reformation iconoclasm aiming to eliminate Papist practices.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hieritha's tomb remains within the arched alcove placed next to the high altar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A random tomb sculpture lies comfortably in the adjacent transept along with other random memorials.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And finally on to another CCT church . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with a very old door . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a very charming interior . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with a floor that could be a quilt . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . original furnishings . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a reminder to sing loudly and be joyous.<br />
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The next and last church on our list was locked, giving us more time in our comfortable Woolley Lodge, where without the distraction of broadband internet connectivity, we plowed through books, listened to Bob's extensive i-pod collection using a funny little speaker device, ate well and slept soundly. </td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-66370281533840170592014-05-05T22:14:00.000+01:002014-05-09T09:04:30.170+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 6<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Facing grey, misty, and ultimately rainy weather, we planned a day devoted to church visiting further afield along the northern coast of Cornwall. The rocky coast of Morwenstow was famous for shipwrecks, wreckers, and smugglers. And the church was famous for its poet pastor Robert Hawker who was appointed vicar in 1834, and remained until his death in 1875. Entering the churchyard, a large white figures looms into view, as if leaping up from its resting place.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">The recent replica figurehead of the Caledonia marks the burial of the crew of an 1842 wreck with only one survivor. Hawker insisted on giving Christian burial rites and a churchyard burial to the dead of this wreck instead of the traditional burial at the beach.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Norman portal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original Caledonia figurehead inside the church</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ancient Saxon font retained when the Normans rebuilt the church</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Norman arcade of round arches . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . decorated with carved heads, human and animal . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and this interesting head.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next is Kilkhampton with a churchyard overflowing with the yellow flowers of springtime . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a fabulous Norman portal . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with carvings that turn out to be little faces poking up with little noses and peering eyes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carved bench ends are a popular feature of the area churches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then on to St Swithin's in Launcells with its Holy Well . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and Tudor bench ends carved with stories told in picture riddles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir John Chamond who died in 1624 rests comfortably on his crooked elbow after nearly 400 years.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful floor tiles on the altar platform</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Next the church in the large market town of Launceston whose large early 16th century church has a very ordinary modern interior, but an amazing exterior of intricately carved granite in lace-like patterns . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with faces and animals . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and St. George slaying his dragon . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a recumbent Mary Magdalene with her oil jar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lastly, we arrived at another Churches Conservation Trust church in Luffincott.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with a simple elegant interior . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . of thick walls and mullioned windows . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">. . . and a memorial window to the local Luffincott family who emigrated to Philadelphia and became the Lippincott's, founders of the once famous publishing house in 1836 by first printing Bibles, then almanacs, and school textbooks.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-43557223528118508132014-05-01T18:21:00.002+01:002014-05-09T09:17:17.455+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Back to improved weather and more churches on Easter Monday. Another early Gothic church in the pretty village of Mortehoe which is recorded in the Norman Domesday Book . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . early 20th century mosaics in the chancel arch in memory of a member of the congregation . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and the tomb of William de Tracy, who died in 1322.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mortehoe Point the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean. . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . looking south across Woolacombe Bay to Baggy Point.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Braunton Church has Saxon foundations, with Norman features overlaid with Early Gothic rebuilding, and a graceful spire out of a fairy tale.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church's ceiling bosses are exceptional with the suckling pig boss the best known.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Bench ends are beautifully carved. Those figures probably lost their faces during the period of iconoclasm that accompanied the Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a tombstone in the churchyard tells a tragic tale of 20th century war.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A walk around the National Trust land on Baggy Point offered beautiful views of the cliffs . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and of Croyde Beach . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . one of England's favourite surfing beaches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baggy Point . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . with its sheep filled grassy pastures.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-4917967757399806502014-05-01T10:33:00.001+01:002014-05-09T09:15:11.332+01:00Easter at the Gnome Reserve<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Our first visit was nearly 10 years ago when, on a weekend holiday in nearby Somerset, our daughter Susan saw a tourist flyer listing the Gnome Reserve and insisted we had to see this. And we did. A labour of love and amusement by an elderly woman, who greets you in her studio where she models and paints tiny souvenir gnomes, the reserve is a 4-acre woodland and wildflower garden dotted with all varieties of gnomes living their lives protected from those who admit they "hate gnomes."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gnome hats are mandatory for visitors, and since overnight the weather had turned blustery and chilly they were welcome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gnomes of course like to fish . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . music and dancing are popular pastimes too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amusement parks are a fun day-out . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and transport is quite sophisticated.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gnomes can be helpful around the house too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every morning my little gnome greets me on the shelf above the computer along with my smiling grandchildren</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-55857329515503326252014-04-30T15:12:00.000+01:002014-05-09T09:13:58.186+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Since 2000, when we acquired a recently published book entitled <i>England's Thousand Best Churches</i> by Simon Jenkins, we have used it in conjunction with some version of a Good Pub guide to lead us on our travels around England. Over the past few years there haven't been many church excursions, and Bob was very keen to rekindle our visits to historic churches on this trip. Here we are at Combe Martin, number 333 on our list of churches we have visited (although the accuracy is not to be completely relied upon).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combe Martin is notable for its lovely carved chancel screen with naked nymphs . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a scowling Green Man . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . and a congregation I would be comfortable joining.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combe Martin is a coastal town, and the drive to Ilfracombe introduced us to the dramatic rocky coast of North Devon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Quay at Ilfracombe is now noted for the preposterous statue . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . donated by (no longer so) Young Brit Artist Damien Hirst after he moved to North Devon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob is glaring his disapproval of <i>Verity</i>, as she is named . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">. . . but I have to agree with Damien that this is a perfect spot for a monumental piece of art. No, the sky has not suddenly turned yellow here in Ilfracombe, but really what's the point of having i-photo if not to enhance the likes of <i>Verity</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Parracombe's St Petrock's Church is on hilltop off a dirt track in Exmoor National Park. English National Parks are not preserves or reserves with land owned by the government as they are in the States. They are large rural districts of special environmental interest designated as such because they will benefit from regional planning. Since this morning we have been to Combe Martin, Ilfracombe and now Parracombe, so I will mention a "combe" in this part of the world is a valley, usually a steep sided one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Parracombe is a medieval Gothic church, with an updated 18th century interior. The chancel screen has been replaced with a board that features both prayers and the royal arms reaffirming the connection between church and state after the religious upheaval of the 17th century. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wise words adorn the walls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pews are carved oak said to date from the 15th century.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tiny bit of carved decoration appears on one capital . . . </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">. . . but the floor at the base of the pier is an indicator of how old the wood is. Parracombe Old Church was nearly torn down in the 19th century when a newer, more stable church was built in the village centre, but a preservation campaign led by artist and critic John Ruskin saved the building from being demolished. Parracombe is now designated as "redundant," but is still sanctified, so it is cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, the organisation my daughter Susan works for.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The font has to be ancient. Actually it may be. Sometimes the font is an old Roman bowl. I love the multiple legs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few pretty angels . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . in the churchyard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Taking advantage of the last few hours of fantastic weather we went off to Heddon Valley for a walk on National Trust land posted on their website as a "Gentle Walk to Heddon's Mouth." The National Trust is best known for their huge inventory of historic country piles, but they also own swathes of conservation land where they maintain trails and visiting facilities. The trail follows the River Heddon in a steep combe to the sea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last glacier left steep scree fields.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cliffs are 400 million year old Devonian sandstone. Yes, the root of Devonian is Devon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rocky shore at Heddon's Mouth beneath what the National Trust says are some of the steepest cliffs in England.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-15857694972905225062014-04-28T00:51:00.002+01:002014-05-09T09:10:16.300+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Woolley Lodge has magnificent wrought iron gates . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . topped with herons facing each other, grasping a snake in its beak, the Chichester family emblem. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Our cottage Woolley Lodge was part of a mid-nineteenth century scheme to build a grand entrance to the Chichester family's country pile Arlington Court. The Chichester's had been important gentry in Devon since the 14th century. Their previous 18th century house was not well built and needed replacement. The present house was built in the early 1820s, and soon after, Sir John began construction of his grand entrance, the iron gates at the elegant Woolley Lodge gate house would open to a scenic avenue with a graceful bridge over the man-made water feature. At his death in 1851, the project was still uncompleted, and when his son and heir began spending their diminishing fortune on other pet projects . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . including this avenue of monkey puzzle trees, the plan was never realised.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Arlington Court is a boxy Neo-Classical design, a popular style of the Regency period. There are Victorian additions to increase its size and prestige befitting the late 19th century standards of conspicuous consumption. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">There are large gardens, but nothing very exceptional. Another Chichester heron marks<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large walled kitchen garden is planted, but the seedlings are just emerging.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The perennial border is just starting to add new growth, and the trees are not fully in leaf.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The parish church is across the lawn from the house . . . </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. . . where paths lead to walks around the estate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The guide pamphlet mentions the climate is ideal for growing vast species of lichens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our walk on a gorgeous afternoon of sunshine and blue sky took us along the low rise of Woolley Woods.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-60790571034583832612014-04-27T18:24:00.000+01:002014-05-09T09:07:44.485+01:00Easter Week in North Devon Day 1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">After last years's Easter Week trip to Istanbul and a few Easters in the States with the grandchildren, this year we have returned to our Easter Week tradition of a holiday in a National Trust cottage somewhere in England. We have spent past Easters in Yorkshire and Cornwall and Lincolnshire and East Anglia. This year we are heading west to North Devon. Stopping at the Windmill Inn in Portishead overlooking the Severn Estuary south of Bristol now also seems to be a tradition. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Next stop is for food. The Witheridge Farm Shop found on the internet, advertised as The Delicatessen in the Middle of Nowhere, and miraculously found on the ground despite the webpage emphasising "we really are in the middle of nowhere." The next village is named Nomansland, no kidding. Set in the middle of a working farm, we picked up fresh veg and meats and eggs and local cheese.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">And here is our cottage, Woolley Lodge, on the National Trust's property at Arlington Court. This one really is a cottage which is a generic term for the Trust's rental property. Cottages can be in any sort of unused outbuilding on a property: flats in houses, terraced rows, barns, schoolhouses. Sometimes they are less comfortable than anticipated, but they are always interesting. Back in the day, estate workers were happy to have two rooms to call their own. Woolley Lodge was one of the most comfortable we have rented.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-76449687232361877892013-10-24T13:11:00.000+01:002013-10-24T13:11:32.293+01:00A Visit to Dear Jane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Jane Stickle Quilt, known in the world of quilting as <i>Dear Jane</i> after the title of Brenda Papadakis's book, is exhibited by the Bennington Museum in Vermont for 6 weeks every year from the end of August until mid-October. Earlier this year an announcement was made that this year the exhibition would include new information on the quilt's maker, Jane Stickle. What better excuse for a trip to Vermont in autumn than to learn more about Jane Stickle. So on Columbus Day weekend Megan and Christian and I set off for a glorious weekend in Vermont.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Bennington Museum's quarterly journal <i>Walloomsack Review</i> (Volume 11 Summer 2013) includes an article by quilt historian Pam Weeks with research on the Blakley and Stickle families mostly derived from Census and probate records. Jane's father Erastus Blakley was a relatively wealthy farmer based on the inventory in his probate records. He died when Jane was 13 and left half his estate to his son Erastus, a quarter to Jane, and the remaining quarter divided between two other daughters. He specified the money should be used to educate Erastus and Jane, implying Jane was especially worthy of education. Jane and her husband Walter had no children, but many nieces and nephews. Seven nephews served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The quilt won the $2 prize (said to be equal to $40 today) for the Best Patched Quilt at the Bennington County Fair in September 1863. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;">After Pam Week's article was published, Museum curator Jamie Franklin found this important article in the October 1, 1863 edition of the <i>Bennington Banner </i>reporting on the recent County Fair where Jane Stickle's quilt was first displayed. Sadly the article is difficult to read, but the relevant lines begin in the middle of the third paragraph: <i>Mrs J.B. Smith of Manchester, Mrs Taft and Mrs Stickles presented each a very extra bed quilt. Mrs Stickles is an invalid lady, having been for a long time confined to her bed, but her ambition to do something to kill the time induced her to piece the quilt. It contains many thousand different pieces of cloth, no two of which are exactly alike. Upon one corner is marked in plain letters, "made in the war of 1863."</i> The startling new fact that Jane was an invalid goes a long way to explaining the puzzling decline of Jane and Walter. Why in 1860, Jane's husband and mother lived with her brother Erastus, but Jane is listed as living by herself. In 1870, they were back living together at a farm that was valued at $6,000 with personal property of $1,500. But in 1880, they had lost their farm and were wards of the town according to the records of the Overseer of the Poor. Walter is noted as having rheumatism, but there is no mention of Jane's disability. They continued to live on public charity until their deaths in 1883 and 1896.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pam Week's research allowed a peek at the unseen back of the quilt which is two panels made up from a linen </span><span style="font-size: small;">bed sheet with tiny embroidered initials of S.B. for Jane's mother Sarah (Sally) Blakley. Jane's father's probate inventory includes two sets of linen sheets. Examining the quilt, she believes the quilt was pieced and quilted as a straight sided square, then strips of calico (UK)/muslin (US) were sewn to the top edges overlapping the extra wadding and backing allowance, then each wedge curve was cut individually and bound with a straight grain strip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The quilt and the watercolour were donated to the Bennington Museum by Jane's niece Sarah Blakley Seymour Bump (1868-1950), daughter of Jane's brother Erastus, probably in 1938 or 1939, according to the undated records held by the Museum. </span></div>
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The wonders of Alsace never cease to amaze. First we find it to be the birthplace of Gregorian Chant, and now we discover they are taking the credit as the birthplace of quilting. Only the Michelin guidebook goes that far in its claims, but the birthplace of Amish quilting is certainly in Alsace. The Zwingli branch of the Protestant Reformation created the Anabaptist movement which rejected infant baptism in favour of adult baptism after a confession of faith, and they also embraced the principles of non-violence. Controversial beliefs always led to persecution during this chaotic period, and many Anabaptists moved into the Val d'Argent of the central Vosges where they were welcomed by the local land owner. In 1693, in the town of Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, Swiss preacher Jacob Amman gathered believers into a new sect who wished to live by their own interpretation of Biblical principles, and they were referred to as the Amish. A century later, the Amish began moving to Pennsylvania when the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars which followed threatened their non-violence principles with forced conscription.<br />
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For nearly twenty years the town of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines has held a quilt show — billed in some places as Europe's largest quilt show — with exhibitions spread across venues in public and private spaces across the town and in two neighbouring villages in the valley. Each venue featured quilts from different countries, different teachers, different competitions, or different collections. This is a small selection of interesting quilts.</div>
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An Exhibition from the States was the collection from Ohio's Quilt National 2011</div>
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Judy Martin<br />
Canada</td></tr>
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Pamela Fitzsimmons<br />
Australia</td></tr>
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Pat Budge<br />
U.S.A.</td></tr>
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The wonderful French quilting magazine <i>Quiltmania</i> sponsored a collection of antique chintz quilts from the States (POOS Collection belonging to Kay Triplett). They are mostly dated from the first half of the 19th century and are in superb condition.</div>
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The highlight of the day was an extraordinary collection of Amish quilts from the collection of Frenchman Jacques Légeret who lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana Amish communities, wrote down their stories for several books, and bought the quilts he was offered.</div>
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The local quilters of Val d'Argent filled a whole church with beautiful work. Much of it was on the theme <i>A Journey to the Heart of the Forest</i>, most appropriate to their forested valley. I could not catch the names of all the quilters who contributed to the display.</div>
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Huguette Buecher<br />
France</td></tr>
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Evelyne Latrouche<br />
France</td></tr>
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Andrée Louzy<br />
France</td></tr>
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Les Amies du Mardi<br />
France</td></tr>
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Marie Claire Meyer<br />
France</td></tr>
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Bernina sponsored quilts from the members of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If Leaves Were Blue<br />
Priscilla Kibbee<br />
U.S.A.</td></tr>
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Aurifil Threads sponsored an exhibition of work featuring architecture</div>
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DAMSS<br />
Italy</td></tr>
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Monique Gilbert, a Belgian quilt teacher, exhibited the works of her students who were asked to interpret the work of artist Paul Van Hoeydonck in a project for her Crossroads Group</div>
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Anny Celis<br />
Belgium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behind Prison Bars<br />
Monique Houtevelts<br />
Belgium</td></tr>
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Martine Vervack<br />
Belgium</td></tr>
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U.K. quilters appeared in a variety of group exhibitions</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maelstrom<br />
Susan Hayes<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whirligigs 2<br />
Jenny Rolfe<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squiffy Sampler<br />
Philippa Naylor<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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Contemporary Expressions, a U.K. group from the Midlands, exhibited a marvelous collection of small wallhangings that were inspired by Kew Gardens</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reach for the Sun<br />
Ann Beech<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pollen<br />
Susan Hayes<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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Kath Gunn<br />
U.K.</td></tr>
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The invited European "Guest Country" for this year's show was Denmark</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The War of the Worlds<br />
Else Mikkelsen<br />
Denmark</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roseville Album<br />
Anne Hejl<br />
Denmark</td></tr>
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Karin Østergaard<br />
Denmark</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chaos and Order, Passage of Time<br />
Charlotte Yde<br />
Denmark</td></tr>
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In between our concert weekends, we looked for nearby places to visit, and Metz, the leading city of Lorraine in Carolingian times popped up on Bob's music radar when he chanced on a mention that Gregorian chant was invented in Metz . . . which by the way, and emphasized in every guidebook, is pronounced "Mess" in French. My German pronunciation is adequate thanks to four years with Fräulein Phillip in high school. My French pronunciation is dismal, but I am totally lost when every place name seems to be spelled in German, but pronounced in French.<br />
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So how could we not leave Alsace for two days to see the birthplace of Gregorian chant.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Metz's most famous attraction is the Cathedral of St Etienne, begun in the early</span><span style="font-size: small;"> 13th century, within the walls of a 10th-11th century basilica style church. Construction continued for 300 years. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . the Templars were dissolved in 1312, and the chapel was passed to other religious orders who would have been responsible for the frescoes that decorate the interior. Metz was a Free City of the Holy Roman Empire until 1552 when Henri II annexed the city to his expanding kingdom of France. When Henri fortified the city, St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains became an arsenal and the Templars Chapel became a gunpowder store. The restoration of the two buildings were part of the early 20th century plan to emphasize the German history of the region.<br /><br />And what about Gregorian Chant, the foundation of Western music? It has been known for a long time that Gregory the Great, Pope from 540 to 604, had nothing to do with Gregorian Chant although it was named after him as an honorific. Recent scholarship has indicated that Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz from c.740 to 766, had a great deal to do with establishing Gregorian Chant. Until the 8th century there was no core liturgical rite, but rather regional rites were in use across Christian practice. When Pope Stephen II travelled to Merovingian Gaul in the 750s, he said mass using his preferred Roman Rite chant. King Pepin liked it so much, he abolished the local Gallic chant, a move not popular in Gaul. When Charlemagne became king, he asked Bishop Chrodegang of Metz to promote the new Roman Rite. What Chrodegang did was join the Roman and Gallic Rites into a new system that included eight modes and neumes to indicate melody. The new Rite was originally named Messin, to honor Chrodegang of Metz.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The view from our hotel window is not a volcano about to erupt, but a peak in the Vosges Mountains where the Castle Haut-Koenigsburg sits at the very top. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The geomorphology of Alsace is simple, and can nearly be seen in this hazy photograph. The eastern boundary is the Rhine with its very wide, very flat, very arable floodplain. The Vosges Mountains rise to the west of the floodplain. On the lower elevation hills bordering the floodplain, the vineyards of the local wine industry spread up the hillsides. The high peaks rise steeply and vertically, dotted with the remains of medieval castles strategically placed to defend themselves against invasion.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Haut-Koenigsburg was built sometime in the middle of the 12th century, burned by its neighbours in 1462, and rebuilt in a "modern" defense style in 1479. During the 30 Years War, Sweden's Protestant forces lay siege to the castle, held by the Catholic Hapsburgs, for 52 days in 1633. When Sweden prevailed, the castle was pillaged and burned and left as a ruin for 250 years. <br /><br />Another of those highly forgettable wars, in this case the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, handily and unexpectedly won by the Prussians, resulted in a peace treaty that transferred Alsace and a bit of Lorraine to Prussia. At that time Germany, under the leadership of their strongest state Prussia, was busy drawing together all its small independent states and duchies and electorates into the unified nation of Germany. Having a castle that dated back to the earliest days of its powerful Holy Roman Empire history was a gift too good to not use as a symbol of the powerful new German state in the planning. In 1900, the Kaiser assigned restoration architect Bodo Ebhardt to rebuild the castle as historically accurate as he could through archaeological evidence, source evidence, and a bit of imagination.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . under the Imperial Eagle. After reading about the history of the castle, I thought, how appropriate to use it as a setting for an anti-war film in 1937 when everyone in Europe knew a second war was imminent.<br /><br />After spending much longer than anticipated at the castle, we found a restaurant willing to feed us a light lunch even though it was past two o'clock. Then we headed to our third concert in the series. De Caelis, five women from Normandy, with a mixed programme of medieval songs and modern commissions influenced by early music. </span></td></tr>
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One of the issues to be faced when travelling in France, especially in rural France, is that the people of France hold on to the belief the pace of life should match the needs of people, not the other way round. When you are on holiday, you also want to slow down the pace of activity, sleep a bit later, linger over breakfast. But in France you then bump up against the midday closure of nearly everything a tourist wants to see and do. The universal shut down of shops and museums and post offices to mail post cards and pretty much everything else from noon to 2:00 p.m. puts a big dent in the itinerary for the day. Of course the restaurants remain open so you can relax over a two to three hour lunch with a bottle of wine like everyone else, and then try to remember what it was you had planned to do in the morning that seemed important before the bottle of wine. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . with a patio garden overlooking the River Ill . . . it is even more difficult to get moving . . . but we are so glad that we did make it into the centre of Sélestat with nearly 90 minutes to visit the Humanist Library before it closed for the lunch break.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In corners of my brain little wisps of information learned long ago in World History class live on. Back then, we learned after the Romans were bested by the barbarian teams not much happened until the Merovingians came along, and I loved them because they had great names like Clovis and Pepin and Dagobert, but the greatest of them was Charlemagne, and he was great because he revived learning in Western Europe. Through that doorway with the ornamental grille is the exhibition room of the Humanist Library in Sélestat, the most amazing museum you may have never heard of (I hadn't), where that idea comes to life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Library prohibits photography in the display room, but this <a href="http://www.bibliotheque-humaniste.eu/anglais/10_%200gallery.htm">website</a> offers some photos of their treasures. A book from the 7th century. A 10th century copy of Vitruvius's ten books on architecture from the 1st century that was owned by the Bishop of Worms. A 10th century manuscript of Horaces's Odes and Ars Poetica packed with comments in the margins written in the tiniest of script. My personal favorite is the book they call the "Birth Certificate of America," Matthias Ringmann's 1507 <i>Cosmographiae </i>which indicates worries about gender inequity have a long history: "Keeping in mind that Europe and Asia have been christened after female names I can not conceive why the [new lands] should not be named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Country of America, after its discoverer. . ."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The remainder of the exhibition documents the spread of book publishing with the introduction of movable type, another of those wispy ideas left over from World History. Sélestat was an early centre of printing because of its influential Humanist School, the source of the Library, which trained an early generation of Humanist scholars. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">. . . by neighbouring Germany who was not very far away. The Maginot Line was useless because the Germans attacked through Belgium, and blitzkrieged their way through the Belgium-France border, and were in Paris is no time at all. When the attack came to Casemate 253 in June 1940, the 30 soldiers could not hold the bunker for long against a force of 200 German soldiers.</span></td></tr>
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Everybody probably knows that Bob loves Early Music. He loves to sing it. He loves to listen to it both live and recorded. And he loves to pick out Early Music Festivals to attend. And there are so many of them. So when our autumn trip to the States was pushed off because of commitments here, and he read about the Festival Voix et Route Romane, 10 concerts, over 3 weekends, in Romanesque churches in the Alsace region of France, we were booked and ticketed and ready to go.</div>
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Alsace is the region of eastern France best known for being passed back and forth between France and Germany from the Prussian War of 1870 when victorious Germany won the region, only to lose it in the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War, and to regain it with the Occupation of France in 1940, and finally the permanent reversion to France in 1945. The European Parliament sits in the Alsatian city of Strasbourg as a symbol of the unification of purpose brought about by the European Union.<br />
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We flew into Basel, an airport that straddles the borders of Switzerland, Germany, and France. In fact passport control offers separate lines for entering each country, and airport exits are marked for your country of choice. We picked up our rental car and headed out the French exit.</div>
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The Route Romane or Romanesque Road is a tourist marketing tool devised some 20 years ago to raise the tourism interest in Alsace beyond the popular Wine Route. Twenty-two Romanesque churches of the 12th century have been linked in the route. Some are much older, but were modernized in the new style. Most have been modernized in the following centuries with Gothic, Baroque, and later additions. Some were wiped out in wars and have been completely rebuilt.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the airport we headed into the Sundgau, the southern region of Alsace that lies in the Jura mountains, the foothills of the Alps. Something I did not know is that the Jura is the root of the geologic term Jurassic . . . a great lunch in the charming town of Ferrette, but no dinosaurs. Up on the hillside is the ruin of the castle belonging to the Counts of Ferrette. Through marriages, treaties, family connections, the title of Count of Ferrette belongs to the Prince of Monaco.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first of the Romanesque churches on our route was Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur in Feldbach, built around 1145 by the Count of Ferrette when he established a Benedictine Convent here. A very plain exterior of Jura limestone . . .</span></div>
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Once again we didn't make it to Stonehenge yesterday for the Solstice, but my favourite <a href="http://londonist.com/">Londonist</a> website <i>Things to Do in London Today</i> which sends a message into my inbox at 7 a.m., Monday through Saturday — Sunday is covered in Saturday's Weekend edition — offered an invitation to the <i>Eye of Ra: A Midsummer Rite</i> sponsored by University College of London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Despite good intentions of visiting for many years, I had never been to the Petrie.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shiny new London bus, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. There are staircases front and back, plus an open platform at the rear that can be used to hop on and off the bus in stopped traffic like the beloved, but retired, Routemaster buses allowed passengers to do, but only when a conductor is on duty on the platform. That's the intended plan anyway. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We arrived early before the music and entertainment programme, but not before the excellent free food and drink. A healthy mixed grain and vegetable and nuts and seeds porridge. And Black Cocktails that were an interesting mix of vodka, almond milk, with a spritz of chili and licorice flavouring. Thank you Ra. He replied with some gusts of wind and a very brief torrent of rain.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Then on to the Petrie Museum itself, which in any other place would have been a world class museum instead of crammed into a few small rooms in the University's science library. Flinders Petrie was a professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at UCL from 1892 to 1933. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Petrie's lengthy Wikipedia entry</a><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> includes reference to his controversial beliefs, disagreements with other Egyptologists, and the tale of his missing head. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> These Coptic Socks date from c. 400 AD. Last year the museum had a workshop to<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/documents/sock_pattern2.pdf"> knit the socks</a>, <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The museum is currently hosting an art installation mounted by their Artist in Residence Cathy Hayes, who prefers the title Timekeeper in Residence to match the subject of her work entitled <i>A Report on Progress</i> which catalogues the variety of ways Time and Progress have been modeled, shaped, symbolised, illustrated in different eras by scientists, philosophers, theologians, historians, and artists. This photo includes planetary models, timelines, arrows, and lots of red string linking artefacts. Fortunately there is a <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/research/petrie_timekeeper">Timekeeper website</a> that links to explanations through the project including a link to the artist's <i>A Storm is Brewing</i> blog. I am going to study all of this before a return visit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our last day in Istanbul. We're tired, and the weather is lovely, so we decide to spend the day riding ferries. I had thought we could find ferries to take us from ferry landing to ferry landing up the Bosphorus to stop and see sights along the coast, but alas, we could not find these ferries, so eventually we opted for the short one-hour cruise.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fortress at Rumeli Hisari was built on the European side of the Bosphorus by Mehmet II, the Conqueror, to match an older fortress on the opposite Asian side, allowing him to control all traffic on the water as he laid siege to the city of Constantinople. 800 years of failed attempts required some new clever strategies to succeed. He bypassed the chain used to close the Golden Horn, by having his army carry 80 galleys overland from the Bosphorus on a mile long plank road he built. The ships could then be launched directly into the Golden Horn. The siege lasted less than two months.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up the Bosphorus to the Black Sea whose borders include Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Ukraine,<br /> and Russia. The Bosphorus is only 20 miles long, but its strategic importance is incalculable. <br />It is Russia's only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes with tankers and container ships <br />— this one said Chicago on the front — carrying grain from Europe's breadbasket and oil from Russia .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After supper at the favorite fish restaurant we had eaten at earlier in the week, <br />we took a last look at the exterior of the magisterial Haghia Sophia.</td></tr>
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<br />Jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04800010960277265634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874082735810724490.post-86431103752916267642013-04-06T19:33:00.003+01:002013-04-06T19:33:59.723+01:00Nine days and nearly done<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our holiday is winding down and the weather is perfect so wandering to see the things left undone was the plan for the day. Bob saw a notice about this exhibit in <i>Time Out Istanbul</i> monthly magazine when we arrived, so we headed to the other side of the Golden Horn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exhibition was not very exciting because there were no original maps on display, just photographs of very old maps that will be available as a coffee table book on historic maps. The university art center building hosting the exhibit was much more interesting. The Cannon House was the Ottoman Empire's military foundry established by the Conqueror himself, although this building dates from the early 19th century.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exhibit's focus was cartography prior to 1513 when the Piri Reis map was drawn using sources that have long been lost, including Columbus's original maps of the Caribbean. Only the western third of the map is extant, but that includes the east coast of Brazil making the map one of the earliest maps to include depictions of the New World. Piri Reis was an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, and the map is in the Topkapi Palace Library collection. ( I forgot to take a photo of the photo map, so this image is borrowed from Google images.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then we moved on to a truly unique museum, Turkish Nobel Literature Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. As a young writer, he conceived the idea of writing a novel told through the material objects that define a person's life in the place where the life is led. He began collecting everyday objects with a vague idea in mind for the novel, which as he writes in the book about the museum (above right) became an obsession during the late 1990s. When he began seriously planning the project he realized he had to have a place to set the novel before he could begin writing if the idea was to work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He bought and renovated this house, which is now the Museum of Innocence, as he wrote the novel with the same name. Open to the public for rather an enormous fee (25 Turkish Lira, the same price as a ticket to Haghia Sophia or to Topkapi Palace) unless you are carrying the book with you. Then you are admitted free. Bob's copy (above left) bought for 25 Turkish Lira – you can do the math, but at least we now have the book to read, not just a ticket stub — gave him free admission and a special stamp on page 520. (I also borrowed this photo from Google images.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The museum has a special vitrine display for each of the book's 83 chapters. Above are Chapters 2 through 5. Not having yet read the book, traveling through the 83 chapters was fascinating. Through the artifacts, I have an idea of the events that transpired, but no grasp of the story line. No photos were permitted, so this too is from Google images.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We ended the day by walking across the Galata Bridge over the Golden Horn. <br />The lower level is for eating fish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The upper level is for catching fish a for walking. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bosphorus to the left . . .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ataturk Bridge to the right . . .</td></tr>
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