Saturday, September 27, 2014

Fort Ticonderoga, and The Hyde Collection

540 miles, 12 hours


Wendy is leading a retreat down in Cohasset today, so I took this opportunity to visit two art locations which are not-close-but-within-a-day-trip: the Thomas Cole painting at Fort Ticonderoga, and The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York (Bierstadt, plus a couple of Homer's). I left home at 6:35 AM, and got back to Seven Central at 6:45 PM.

my first stop was at Quechee Gorge, about 2 miles from Exit 1 in Vermont. It is a State Park, with hiking trails, but the main attraction is the GORGE:


I parked in a nice roadside area in Vermont

(and was able to pick up some trash to make it lovely)

Fort Ticonderoga has a beautiful view of Lake George


The ground floor of the Mars Education Center is where they display Thomas Cole's Gelyna, or A View Near Ticonderoga:


The Fort had fallen into disrepair/ruins by the 1890's:


but was reconstructed in the early 1900's:



48 miles south is The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. For me, the jewel is Albert Bierstadt's "Yosemite Valley", ca. 1865


There is also a nice Winslow Homer "Adirondack Guide, ca. 1876


and then back home via the Mass Pike


Saturday, September 27, 2014

here is today's playlist (I am listening to my songs, alphabetically!) - 137 songs today

2 highlights were:

Facing West Pat Metheny Secret Story (2 cds)
listened to while I was going west on Route 4 in Vermont - one of the most beautiful river-and-road combinations I have seen!

The Fastest Way Back Home Frank Turner Poetry Of The Deed
because, obviously, I was trying to find "The Fastest Way Back Home"

Excursion And Interlude (Live) Mose Allison The Mose Chronicles Vol. 1
Excuse Me Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (1)
Exhuming McCarthy R.E.M. Document
Exilio (Exile) Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylon
Existence Trik Turner Trik Turner
Exit U2 The Joshua Tree
Exitlude The Killers Sam's Town
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980 [Disc 2] [Live]
Exodus (1960) Ferrante & Teicher 60s Instrumentals
Exotico Lara & Reyes Guitarisma
Exotique Bossa Nova/Quiet Village Bossa Nova Martin Denny Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 14: Bossa Novaville
EXP The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love
Expansion Pat Metheny Orchestrion
Expecting To Fly Buffalo Springfield Retrospective - The Best of Buffalo Springfield
Explorers Muse The 2nd Law
Expo In Tokyo Alan Moorhouse The Outernational Sound
Express Yourself Madonna The Immaculate Collection
Expresso Love Dire Straits Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (2 cds)
Expresso Love Dire Straits Making Movies
Expressway (To Your Heart) The Soul Survivors Love Train • The Sound Of Philadelphia (4 cds)
Expressway To Your Heart The Soul Survivors Toga Rock
Extradition [Live] Pat Metheny Group Travels (live) (2 cds)
The Extremist Joe Satriani G3 Live Rockin' In The Free World [Disc 1]
Extrication Love Song Hot Tuna The Best Of Hot Tuna (2 cds)
Eye In The Sky The Alan Parsons Project Billboard Top Hits 1982
Eye To Eye The Muffs Whatever - The 90's Pop & Culture Box (7 cds)
Eyes Like Glue Drive-By Truckers The Big To-Do
Eyes On The Prize Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Eyes On The Prize Cyrus Chestnut Genuine Chestnut
Eyes Wide Open Hothouse Flowers Home
Eyes Without A Face Billy Idol Greatest Hits (Billy Idol)
Eyesight To The Blind Mose Allison Allison Wonderland: Anthology [Disc 1]
Eyesight To The Blind Pete Townshend Deep End Live!
Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker) The Who Tommy
Eyo-She-She Babatunde Olatunji Drums Of Passion
F-Stop Blues Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales
F.M. Steely Dan A Decade Of Steely Dan
F**K The System Bob Marley Legend
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) Otis Redding Live In Europe
Faber College Theme Elmer Bernstein National Lampoon's Animal House
Faber College Theme (Full) Elmer Bernstein National Lampoon's Animal House
The Face of the Nation John Cougar Mellencamp Scarecrow
Facing East Thievery Corporation WM_Journey
Facing East - original Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylon
Facing West Pat Metheny Secret Story (2 cds)
Factory Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Factory Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Boston - August 26, 1999
Fade Away Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust Tour-Trenton 11-21-2005
Fade Away Bruce Springsteen The River (2 cds)
Fade Away And Radiate Blondie Greatest Hits: Sound & Vision
Fade Like A Shadow KT Tunstall Tiger Suit
Fade To Blue The Del Fuegos Boston, Mass.
Fade To Blue/Richie Havens Richie Havens Cuts To The Chase
Fadeaway The BoDeans The Best Of BoDeans: Slash And Burn
Fadeaway The BoDeans Joe Dirt Car (2 cds)
Fading Scarlet Haven Paleologos
Fading Away James Taylor Walking Man
Fair Game Crosby, Stills & Nash CSN
Fair Play Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
Fairy Dust Joe Jackson Volume 4
Fairy Dust (Live) Joe Jackson Afterlife (Live)
Faith In Something Bigger The Who Odds & Sods
Faith Of Our Fathers Richard Marlow: Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge A Vaughan Williams Hymnal
Faithful Son Frank Turner Poetry Of The Deed
Fake Plastic Trees [Acoustic] Radiohead The Best Acoustic Album In The World... Ever
Fake Plastic Trees [Acoustic] Radiohead Clueless
Fakin' It Simon & Garfunkel Bookends
Fall At Your Feet Crowded House The Best Acoustic Album In The World... Ever
Fall Dreams Gabriel Lee Narada Guitar (2 cds)
Fall Line Jack Johnson On & On
Fall Of A House In Venice Nicholas Dodd Casino Royale
Fall On Me R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant
Fall Out (Live) The Police WBCN Naked Disc
Fallen Sarah McLachlan Afterglow Live
Fallen (Album Mix) Sarah McLachlan Voices
Fallen (Gabriel & Dresden Anti-Gravity Mix) Sarah McLachlan Ultra.Dance 05 [Disc 1]
Fallin' For You Colbie Caillat 2010 Grammy Nominees
Falling Ben Kweller Mr. Deeds soundtrack
Falling Anthem Bad Boy Bill NOW That's What I Call Club Hits
Falling At Your Feet Bono & Daniel Lanois The Million Dollar Hotel
Falling By The Wayside People In Planes The 4400
Falling Down Scarlet Haven Now And Again
Falling Grace Lyle Mays Fictionary
Falling In Love The Chambers Brothers The Time Has Come
Falling In Love With You Livingston Taylor Life Is Good
Falling Off The Face Of The Earth Neil Young Prairie Wind
Falling Out Relient K Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... but Three Do
Falling Up Rickie Lee Jones The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
Falsa Baiana Eliane Elias Bossa Nova Stories
False Echoes (Havana 1921) Jimmy Buffett Banana Wind
Fame David Bowie Best Of Bowie
Fame David Bowie Millennium Classic Rock Party
Fame [Live] David Bowie Station To Station - Live
Families Neil Young Living With War
Family Affair [Single Version] Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits (Sly & The Family Stone)
Family Song Bruce Springsteen Before The Fame (2 cds)
Family Tree Tom Chapin Family Tree
Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen The Best Of Leonard Cohen
Famous In A Small Town Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Fancy Man Blues The Rolling Stones Rarities: 1971-2003
Fanfare Duke Ellington Complete Legendary Fargo Concert (cd 1)
Fanfare For Rocky Bill Conti Rocky
Fanfare For The Common Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer Come And See The Show: The Best Of ELP
Fanfare For The Common Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer Works, Volume 1 (Disc 2)
Fanfare For The Common Man / Blue Rondo A La Turk Emerson, Lake & Palmer Then & Now [Disc 2]
Fanny Mae Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes I Don't Want To Go Home
Fanny Mae The Steve Miller Band Children Of The Future
Fans Malcolm McLaren Fans
Fantasia Gabriela Anders Wanting
Fantasia On The Old 104th Psalm Richard Marlow: Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge A Vaughan Williams Hymnal
The Fantasy 30 Seconds To Mars WM_Playground
Fantino Sebastian Tellier Lost In Translation
Far Away Eyes The Rolling Stones Some Girls
Far Behind Eddie Vedder Into The Wild
Far Far Away Courtney Reid Love Struck
Far Far Away (Stylus Chris Remix) Courtney Reid Love Struck
Far Far Away From My Heart The BoDeans The Best Of BoDeans: Slash And Burn
Far From Home Neil Young Prairie Wind
Far From The Arms Of Hunger Jackson Browne Time The Conqueror
Far Wells, Mill Valley Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty
Far, Far Away From My Heart The BoDeans Joe Dirt Car (2 cds)
Faraway Eyes [Live] The Rolling Stones Shine A Light (2 cds)
The Farewell Douglas Trowbridge Meadowlark Sampler 1985
Farewell And Goodnight Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Farewell, Farewell Fairport Convention Liege And Lief
The Farm Jefferson Airplane Volunteers
Farmer's Trust [Live] Pat Metheny Group Travels (live) (2 cds)
Farther Down The Line Lyle Lovett Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man
Farther On Jackson Browne Late For The Sky
Farther On Down The Road (You Will Accompany Me) Taj Mahal Giant Step
Fascinating Rhythm Fred Astaire The Essential Fred Astaire
Fashion David Bowie Best Of Bowie
Fast Jason Aldean Wide Open
Fast Forward (Ffwd) Jaicko NOW 33
Fast Horse Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin
The Fastest Way Back Home Frank Turner Poetry Of The Deed