BS: Things to see in New England

Subject: RE: BS: Things to see in New England
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 06:28 PM

When I have guests and we go to Cambridge, MA, I take them to see my favorite grotesquery there: the two *oversize* bronze rhinoceroses guarding the entrance to the Harvard biology building off Divinity Avenue. You can even call them rhinocerotes (the proper Greek plural), and the shade of Professor W. V. O. Quine will bless you.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to see in New England
From: LadyJean
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 12:22 AM

Should you be so fortunate as to find yourself in Mystic Connecticut, the town is well worth seeing, and don't miss Old Mystic Seaport. Old Mystic Village is a glorified strip mall, worth a visit, only if you need something.
I have stayed at the Wayside Inn, in South Sudbury, Massachussetts. It's lovely. It was built in the eighteenth century, and much of the period feel is still there, though not in the bathrooms.
Salem Massachussetts has a lot of witchy stuff for the tourists, but they also have The Flying Cloud, that has the record for the fastest voyage around Cape Horn, and is famed in song, story, and a Wedgewood China pattern.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to see in New England
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Aug 03 - 10:13 AM

Just a report here folks.......

Homeless and his lovely lady are on their way and are at the moment probably rambling through Pennsylvania with the one firm plan of being with Kendall on Tuesday. The other firm plan regarding Cape Cod has no time frame....only Kendall.

Last evening Karen and I and the kids met them for a late supper of Thai at one of our favorite hole-in-the-wall joints. We spent several very enjoyable hours together just BSing and discussing the trip. The other thing we also did was to look through many of Homeless' photographs. If you are unaware of this man's ability in the art of photography, you are missing out. He has an excellent eye and the technical skills to go with it....a potent combination.   Plus he has the uncanny ability to shoot the simplest things in such a way that you see the thing in an entirely different way and the oddest things become great pictures.

I was also the recipient of a dual chamber ocarina! Cleigh isn't happy, but this thing is great! I'd never seen one and it has a strange sound .... lots of fun!! Very cool....Thanks !!!

For those of you expecting them along the way, they are on the way! I am envious of the way they are travelling with limited structure and time constraints. And of course, like many others have found out, they are wonderful folks to be with. Nothing like 'Catters for quality "good times."

Spaw