July 17, 2009 - Today was a great beach day so Maya and I went to Revere Beach for the annual sand castle competition. It was a great day so the beach had a great crowd. We walked the beach, watched the sculptures and sat on the wall eating Italian sausage subs. Another fun summer day. [View Full Entry]

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July 16, 2009 - After our walk around Walden pond in Concord we drove next door to Lincoln and the DeCorodova Art Museum and sculpture walk. The current exhibit on display in the gallery is. The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art “This summer DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum hosts the award-winning traveling show The Old, Weird America, the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and mythic history in recent art from the United States. Organized by Toby Kamps, Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the exhibiti [View Full Entry]

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July 16,2009 -- Roberta, Karen and myself visited Walden Pond in Concord and walked around Walden Pond. The weather was warm humid and overcast but we certainly enjoyed the walk. There's a well defined trail that circles the pond and provides a great way view nature. There's a reproduction of Thoreau's cabin near the entrance of the park and when you walk around the pond a marker commemorates the site of the original cabin. [View Full Entry]

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This weeks trip was to Harvard MA, the Fruitlands Museum. It was an interesting place but I had several regretful encounters with the staff. I was going to was going to write a negative review. Karen promised to write a more balanced review but still nothing from her. [View Full Entry]

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Thursday , July 9 2009 - The Tall Ships were in Boston for the weekend so Maya and I took the blue line into town for a walk around the harbor. There are 45 tall ships in town for this event spread out from one side of the harbor to the other. Unfortunately we were limited for time because we had to be back home early to celebrate Max's birthday party. So with the time restraints the only boats we got to see were those situated from the aquarium to the fish pier. Fortunately it was a clear dry day for [View Full Entry]

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Although it took major league baseball 70 years to finally recognize Lou Gehrig, today July 4 2009 they finally did it. Lou Gehrig the Yankee ball player that this disease was named after was 38 when he was diagnosed in 1939. Less than two years after his retirement he was dead. http://espn.go.com/mlb/flash/gehrigletters Fifteen MLB teams from across the country participated in what they called an informational day. Karen and I were invited to participate with a number of other PALS in the MLB 4ALS tribute at Fenway Park in Boston. The sun cooperated and it was finally warm and clear. We [View Full Entry]

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We left Williamstown and the Clark and meandered east along Route 2 the Mohawk Trail. It was the first time in years that I had driven this route through the Berkshires. It was sad to see whats happened to so many of the old tourist stops along the road. These shops were the life line for this area and are either in poor condition or had completely gone out of business. Those old "View Six States From Here" and trinket buying spots just aren't surviving. This graceful driving road has certainly lost it's intrigue to the interstate. I guess I must [View Full Entry]

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Saturday night after the show we spent the night in a hotel in down town Pittsfield. My goal for today was to visit the Mass MOCA in North Adams a museum I'd been trying to get to for years. After a wonderful breakfast Bob's Country Kitchen in Lanesborough we drove north on Route 7 to Williamstown. Karen wanted to stop at the Clark Art Institute so we started our visit there. This was the first time either of us had been to the Clark and it's easy to see why their collection is world renowned. The art in their possession is [View Full Entry]

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On Saturday afternoon Karen and I headed out the Mass Pike to Lenox and the Tanglewood Performance Center. We were going to see how radio is still made with Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion for the 6pm live show the old fashion way. At about 5:45 Garrison took to the stage and began singing the "Star Spangle Banner". He proceeded with a medley of songs walk through the shed right past us he sang a Beatles song. parading around the shed. It was a great evening of entertainment with Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors, [View Full Entry]

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Friendly Garden Club Tour 2009 Despite the unseasonably cold and wet month, ten residential gardens in Beverly managed to thoroughly captivate an audience of a couple hundred gardening enthusiasts on June 27th as part of the Friendly Garden Tour. The Friendly Garden Club of Beverly and some very generous Beverly homeowners welcomed the public for a review of a variety of Beverly’s best gardens on what turned out to be one of the first few sunny summer days of 2009. While some plants were somewhat seasonally delayed, all the gardens were in outstanding condition. The tour inclu [View Full Entry]

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