Again this summer my friend Sandy opened her Cape house in Harwichport to Karen and I for a week. It’s in a great location near the center of town and a few steps from the beach. Being July on Cape Cod everywhere you look blue hydrangeas are lush and in bloom. We might not like the rain much but plants are loving all the rain. As with most of the lost summer of 2009 we had one good day out of five. Wednesday was a beautiful beach day, we walked the few hundred feet from the house to the beach and got some rare sun and into our summer reads. My brother John stopped by and the two of us drove over to the A&W on route 28 in his MGB for the weekly Cruise Night. ... read more

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 exhibition illustrates the relevance and appeal of folklore to contemporary artists, as well as the genre's power to illuminate ingrained cultural forces and overlooked histories. The exhibition borrows its inspiration and title—with the author's blessing—from music and cultural critic Greil Marcus' 1997 ... read more

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.... read more

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 had one of the best Saturdays we’d experienced in over a month. The Red Sox invited us down on to the playing field for the pre game ceremony while Kurt Schilling read Gehrig’s “Today I ... read more

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 outstanding with so many different artists represented. A separate permanent exhibition dedicated to the works by Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer. The current show in the Gallery is the influence of painting styles by Georgia ... read more