Travelog, part 6: another museum and apples

 Sunday:   We left Center Harbor mid-morning and headed 68 miles south to Manchester. (Everything is so close in New Hampshire!)    

I’ve been to a number of exhibits that include art on loan from the Currier Museum of Artt. Today we got to see the museum itself. 

 

In addition to the permanent collection right now they are hosting a spectacular collection of Islamic/Asian rugs from the St. Louis Museum of Art. Several are 500 yrs old. 
 

 

This is contemporary.  See what happens when the colors run? LOL. 

Currier, part 2:   the permanent collection is wide-ranging.  Tomi de Paola and much more—Picasso. Monet, Van Gogh, the Shakers, and some splendid American impressionists.   

 Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, St. Gaudens (a bas-relief of Robert Louis Stevenson).  

 Upper left:  John Singer Sargent, "Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston."   Lower left: Lorenzo Costa, "Portrait of a Woman (Isabella d'Este)" circa 1505.   Upper right: Childe Hassam. Middle and lower right:  Edmund Tarbell. 

A contemporary red shoe (thinking of my wedding attire) and a Shaker desk.

Our Sunday destination was Henniker, NH, where daughter Julie lives. We stopped at Gould Hlll Orchards in Contoocook, next door to Henniker.  We got varieties that aren’t available at home.  

We enjoyed dinner with Julie and her stepsister Jen – and didn’t take a single photo! 

We stayed at the Henniker Motel, a kind of funky local place that was just fine for the night.

 

Monday:    good-bye to New Hampshire, in the rain.    We made it as far as Dunkirk, NY (southwest of Buffalo) – 457miles. It rained from Henniker to Albany. 

Tuesday:  another rainy start to the day but fortunately it cleared west of Erie.  Even more fortunately we avoided morning rush hour in Cleveland and afternoon rush hour in Chicago. 549 miles – and HOME at 4:41 p.m.

That ends the travelog . . . next post will be about quilt shops and a library or two.