Canada - Day Six (Sunapee, NH - St. Paul's School - Currier Museum of Art - Amesbury, MA - home)

Saturday, May 30 - heading home:


Sunset the night before, at The Burkehaven Lodge, Sunapee, NH:


At St. Paul's, I was the Form of 1971, so it was my 44th Reunion (I was the only one from 1971); it was, however, the 45th Reunion for the Form of 1970. They were responsible for assembling the LOVE sculpture for one day in the Fall of 1969, so they recreated it:


I don't think it looks as cool as the original (from my 1970 Yearbook):


and, to give credit where credit is due, it was assembled by the Art Association (are they spelling any letters in their photo?)


There was a 10 AM Chapel Service, which gave me a chance to see "The St. Paul's School War Memorial" ("Death and Youth") by Daniel Chester French


Den and Wen at the Parade


After lunch, we went down to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH ("the other Manchester"). Wow - it has works by:

Laura Alma-Tadema
Albert Bierstadt (3)
William Bradford
Alfred Thompson Bricher
John Linton Chapman
Frederic Edwin Church
Thomas Cole (2)
Jasper Francis Cropsey (2)
Simon de Vlieger
Thomas Doughty
Asher B. Durand
Sanford Robinson Gifford
William M. Hart
William Stanley Haseltine
Martin Johnson Heade (2)
David Johnson (2)
John Frederick Kensett
Claude Monet
Frederic Remington
Joseph Ropes
John Singer Sargent
William Louis Sonntag
Joos van Cleve
Jacob van Ruisdael
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
Andrew Wyeth

Highlights include:
Laura Alma-Tadema - A Knock at the Door, 1897

It reminds me of yesterday's John Singer Sargent - Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris) at The Clark.

Albert Bierstadt - Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, about 1862


Alfred Thompson Bricher - Gerrish Island, Kittery Point, Maine


a magnificant Jasper Francis Cropsey - An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains, 1857


Simon de Vlieger - Sailing Ships in a Gale, about 1645-50


Asher B. Durand - A Reminiscence of the Catskill Clove, 1858


Sanford Robinson Gifford - Torre dei Schiavi, Roman Campagna, 1857-62


a wonderful William Stanley Haseltine - Rocks at Narragansett, 1863


Martin Johnson Heade - Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts, 1861


Andrew Wyeth - Spindrift, 1950

with a PERFECT frame around it.

Then an hour down the road to dinner with friends in Amesbury, and Wendy drove me home that night. WOW - 1731 miles!! What a GREAT TRIP! Thank you, God!

Music today (easy - one album!):

The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach (1972)