Something more pleasant…
…for a beautiful weekend, here’s a photo I took the other day at the ocean:
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I was in Burlington, Vermont this past weekend…
…visiting friends. I also had a yen to see sunset over Lake Champlain, and just to get away and do something a bit different. I had a good meal. The weather was fabulous. I saw a fascinating exhibit of the … Continue reading →
I can’t decide whether these people are the new Taliban or the new Red Guard
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →
Rebuilding Notre Dame: is it an art museum, a tourist attraction, or a cathedral?
I suppose at this point, realistically speaking, it’s something of all of them. I wouldn’t have even asked the question if Notre Dame hadn’t burned, but now that the rebuilding is being planned, it seems relevant. As commenter “Snow on … Continue reading →
Voices from the past: the elderly speak
These are filmed interviews with the elderly. Not the present-day elderly, but the elderly from almost a century ago. Most of these clips were made around 1930, which means that a lot of the interviewees were born in the 1840s. … Continue reading →
The passage of time: fathers and daughters and granddaughters
My great-grandfather holding my grandmother: My great-grandfather holding my mother: He died just a couple of years before I was born.
Continue reading →This is a color photograph of Mark Twain
It was done by a process called autochrome, and it was taken in 1908. Looks like a painting to me:
Continue reading →NY’s Museum of Modern Art is getting a PC makeover
This news may not be of any interest to you, but it’s of interest to me, because of the fondness I bear in my heart for the old MoMA, the one that existed before I was aware it even had … Continue reading →
Fall 2018, Kancamagus Highway
No year is the same as any other year, but this fall the New England foliage has been kind of odd. Somewhat muted, for one thing. And we’ve had lots of rain, which always means that the early, more brilliant … Continue reading →
The Siena experience
One of the places I’ve wanted to visit for quite some time is Siena. And yesterday, when I finally got there, I wasn’t disappointed. One of the nicest things about the city is the fact that its hilltop location can … Continue reading →
The disappearing photos
Late last night I discovered that the vast majority of the photos on posts transferred from the old blog to this one have disappeared. Needless to say, that was not a happy moment. I spent quite a bit of time … Continue reading →
Crying poster child for family separation wasn’t separated from her family
Another iconic photo of a child that doesn’t document the situation it claims to illustrate: She has become the poster child for family separation at the border — and the subsequent moral outrage against the Trump administration — but the … Continue reading →