Monday, August 3, 2009
Yesterday we travelled to Stockbridge, Mass. to the Norman Rockwell Museum. It was wonderful. The estate the museum is on was purchased for this purpose. Norman Rockwell never lived there. They moved his studio, intact, to this location. It looks exactly as it did when he worked there. All of his artist tools and easel are still up and drawings all around. We walked around the grounds which are georgous. It overlooks a river and is on a hill. The museum is wonderful also. It is full of his prints and the guides were very informative. In the basement they have all of his Saturday Evening Post covers displayed. There sure are a lot of them. From his museum we went to Chesterwood. This is the home and studio of Daniel Chester Fence. He is the one who sculpted the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. He also did many sculptures of the Minuteman. He worked with Mr. Beacon, who did a lot of work for the Chicago Worlds Fair. We were also fortunate enough to watch the guest sculptor, that was working there on Sun. His name is Chas Fagan and he did the statue of Neil Armstrong which is on display at Purdue University. It was really interesting to watch and listen to him as he did his work. We also did some genealogy work in Bennington, Vermont. We returned to the coach via New Hampshire, which means we have only one more state to go to enable us to say we have seen all 50. We had a good time the past two days and the weather has been good. It did rain on Sun. but today is wonderful. I'm still working on a way to add pictures, but not having a lot of success yet.
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Have always wanted to go to the Rockwell Museum. Look forward to hearing all about it.
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