Category Archives: Architecture

1/6/2021 – Wednesday – visit with Andrea and insurrection in the capitol

Visit with Andrea, Noah & Nyla

Drove to Sagaponack in the Hamptons on the south fork of the eastern tip of Long Island. 4 hour drive (199 miles). Andrea bought a house here at a bargain price earlier in the year.  Arrived for lunch, chats with Andrea, Noah and Nyla, tour of the house and a visit to the beach. Continue reading

10/29/2019 tennis, Jesse and Anna, lecture at Bard

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting and other work.

Tennis lesson with Saif.

end of outdoor season at Total Tennis

Jesse and Anna

 

Architecture Lecture at Bard

Dr. Jenny Shaffer presented a lecture entitled “Harnessing the Past to Create the Present: The Multiple Lives of Charlemagne’s Chapel at Aachen, ca. 800-2019″. Lecturer is friends with Ted and Anne. Interesting for its traversal of so much European history.

in the Steel Plant building at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY

10/20/2019 – Ghostly Gallop, J L Edwards School and a goofy picture

Sunday

8 am weather

Did set up and course monitoring for today’s HAL Ghostly Gallop 5k walk run race.

 

Father and son competitors

J. L. Edwards School building

While waiting for the race to get started I walked around this noe empty building. It looks quite small at street level. But it is in fact a four story 1960s concrete pile. May become Hudson city hall and other uses.

Thursday – 2/2/2017

Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.

Brutalism in Albany


Library Meeting

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Wednesday – 12/7/2016

75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack.

Up early. Worked on Angry (Old) White Man essay. PT at 9:30.

Dropped package off at UPS.  Building undergoing renovations.  Didn’t know that that end had a curved roof.

HAL mtg about Volunteers at Verdigris at 11. New Board member Carol Pledger. Emily and Brenda too. Very good discussion of volunteer program. 

Returned to work on volunteer management software  

Tennis at night.  Played much better than usual until last 20 minutes.  

 

Saturday – 3/21/15

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7:34 am

Went to gym alone. Karen is mending her ankle.

After breakfast spent time working on a mock up of a website for the Greenport Historical Society. ghs.markorton.com. They haven’t asked for one but I will propose it to them as my contribution. Continue reading