left at noon Friday, home at midnight Saturday.
The main reason for this trip was Penn Lightweight Crew - celebrate the successful completion of funding the Fred Leonard Endowment for Lightweight Crew Coach, and the boathouse-dedication of the "Peter Mallory '67" four. The BEST part was the Friday evening dinner at Devon Seafood Grill on Rittenhouse Square (Thank You Jerry!), followed closely by Saturday's lunch up in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia. My Saturday started off GREAT:
I had a bad phone charger cord, so I did not take any rowing pictures - saw the Varsity Lightweights lose to Princeton by only half-a-length! However, I did have to take a picture of where the lunch was:
and it was good seeing Jerry, Mic, his wife, and Ed there:
After lunch I made my way back down to Boathouse Row, where I parked in the shadow of the Philadelphia Museum of Art - they have a WONDERFUL exhibit (open until May 14, 2017): American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent:
The exhibit has a "No Photos" policy, but I did buy 4 postcards (the Exhibition Book is $65 - a touch out of my budget):
Winslow Homer - Fishing Boats, Key West, 1903 Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Trost Richards - A Rocky Coast, 1877 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Moran - Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1890 National Gallery of Art
Thomas Moran - Ruins on the Nile, 1884 Philadelphia Museum of Art
other favorites in the Exhibition include:
Winslow Homer - Diamond Shoal, 1905 private collection
Winslow Homer - A Garden in Nassau, 1885 Terra Foundation
a nice version of
Alfred Jacob Miller - Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1837-50 The Dietrich American Foundation
and it WAS GREAT seeing "something local":
Alfred Thompson Bricher - Dory on Dana's Beach, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1879 private collection
Back in the Main Museum, I was able to see 9 Monets that had not been "On Display" during my previous visits, including:
The Sheltered Path, 1873
Path on the Island of Saint Martin Vétheuil, 1881
Under the Pines, Evening, 1888
Other "Permanent Collection" pictures I love are:
Canaletto - Rialto Bridge, c. 1730
Francesco Guardi - Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo and Santa Lucia, c. 1770-80
Winslow Homer - Winter Coast, 1890 oil
7 hours to get home (I'm never going over the George Washington Bridge again - never, ever, ever), and bed by 12:30. THANK YOU GOD for this wonderful adventure!!
Music for these 2 days was albums from my purple nano:
Friday Music
The Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin', 1956
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, 1968
Van Morrison & John Lee Hooker - "Gloria" from the album Too Long in Exile, 1993
Van Morrison - Wavelength, 1978
Marvin Gaye - the live concert cd of What's Going On, 1972
Joe Jackson - Night and Day, 1982
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, 2008
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus, 1978
Saturday Music
I saw David Bowie at the Tower Theatre (late Fall 1972), so I always associate David Bowie with Philly.
David Bowie - Best of Bowie, 2002 (2 cds)
Neil Young - Time Fades Away, 1973
This is a live recording of Neil's 1973 tour. I saw him on this tour at the Spectrum (Philadelphia) in January - I like the album (not available on cd; I ripped this from my old vinyl record), even though it got bad reviews.
The Who - Quadrophenia, 1973 2 cds
I saw The Who at the Spectrum Dec 4, 1973, with a bunch of Quadrophenia stuck in the middle; I recall sound quality at the Spectrum left much-to-be-desired. I also remember it being THE LONGEST CLAPPING before an artist came back for an encore.
Loggins and Messina - Sittin' In, 1971
I saw Loggins and Messina at the Spectrum Nov 11, 1972 - I remember two girls from Penn sitting near me, and just screaming when Kenny Loggins did "House at Pooh Corner".
Pink Floyd - Meddle, 1971
I saw Pink Floyd on Nov 12, 1971 at Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - it was pretty spacey music from Meddle.
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?, 1972
I saw Todd Rundgren on April 27, 1973 at Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - I remember he did an excellent powerful version of "Black Maria", and that afternoon I had helped construct his stage set.
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine (On Sept. 1, I joined Deede and Tad hiking Mt. Katahdin [Hunt Trail] - his final day on the AT!)
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