New blood pressure cuff for CMH project.
Full day of work for UTM getting ready for Melville presentation tomorrow.
Dinner st Dave Drake’s new apartment on New St in Catskill. SJ Williams and Pauline Decarmo came with us. Lots of talk about movies and books. Reviewed yesterday’s movie Moonlight.
Dave’s apartment looks well fitted out including space for his painting work.
Weighed 230.5 this morning.
Wrote overview piece for Hudson-Creative. Then turned to my attention to the Our Situation essays. Started anew writing a letter to Noah and Nyla. Very effective mode for me. Quickly got into the swing. Posing questions about why things are the way they are in order to get to the ideas.
Went to get a haircut with Karen. Done, both of us in under 15 minutes. Then a stop at Walmart for drugstore. Got new dish towels to replace the rags we have used up completely.
Dave Drake came over for leftovers. Beef stew.
UTM – meeting with two Swedish guys, Fredrik Florberg and Niclas Fjälltoft.
Spent over four hours in discussion. Fredrik really liked the simplicity and robustness of the product. He is envisioning how to implement it in the healthcare sector in Sweden.
Lunch at Wunderbar.
Dinner with Dave Drake at New York Restaurant in Catskill.
borrowed from Google Earth
Leftover snow despite rain most of the night.
Mtg w UTM. Worked on UTM collaterals.
Drinks and sides with Dave Drake at Rive Gauche, Athens, NY
Also, Lauren Scalera, daughter of Rick, is sworn in to Council. Passing the torch. Michael O’Hara rejoins the Council.
with Dave Drake and Liz Allen.
Late start – breakfast at Bob’s at 9am. Somewhat depressing talk about DOG and DOE. Shopping at Price Chopper.
Gallery had two visitors.
Finished holder for iPad and figured out that Keynote would be the delivery tool.
She came to Hudson to meet old Cornell guy, Nick Adams and his wife Laurie Nussdorfer. no seats anywhere on Warren. Warm enough so we sat in backyard. He is quick tongued architecture historian, she a historian of 17th century Italy. She has a relative from late 19th century Hudson who had a photo studio on Warren.
Dinner and a show with David Drake, Liz Allen and her daughter Elena.
Drove to Albany.
Along the way we stopped in Kinderhook at jack Shainman’s The School Gallery for the “Winter in America” show. Very diverse but in the end unfocused and not very interesting. Liked the di Suvero sculpture on the lawn.
At the Albany Institute of History and Art. David Drake joined us.
The Capital Region in 50 Objects – surprisingly good.
Horse show making machine
Lunch with Anita Harris & Dave near Pine Hills in a Junior’s sports bar on Madison.
Movie at Spectrum – Martian with Matt Damon – good Hollywood entertainment.
Dinner at Van’s Vietnamese Restaurant 307 Central Ave,. David and Dan Drake, Liz Allen, daughter Lena.
Great firehouse on Delaware Ave, near the Spectrum movie theatre.
Drove to Kinderhook to The School, the Jack Shainman Gallery to see the new exhibit=, Winter in America. Somewhat underwhelming. I spent time with the Mark di Suvero sculpture on the front lawn, “Chonk On”
Went to the Albany Institute of History and Art. Saw “The Capital Region in 50 Objects“. Surprisingly interesting.
It’s not often that you see a video game and a chamber pot together in an exhibition. It’s even more unusual when both are highlighted as historic artifacts. But the Capital Region of New York has such a varied history that this pairing, along with forty-eight other items, will partner together to tell their stories in The Capital Region in 50 Objects.
Each region of the country has its own distinctive history and culture that set it apart from others. The Capital Region of New York—consisting of Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, and Saratoga Counties— is no different. So what is it that gives the Capital Region its identity? What historic events, people, ideas, and objects have shaped its character? And even more challenging, is it possible to represent the Capital Region’s distinctiveness in fifty objects? The Albany Institute began asking these same questions more than three years ago when it sent surveys to nearly sixty museums and cultural organizations throughout the region. Through partnership with the Times Union, the Institute was also able to ask readers to submit their ideas based on such themes as Arts, Sports, & Entertainment; Science & Technology; Politics; Industry, Commerce, & Transportation; Life & Society. Then, after reviewing the responses, a committee worked to select fifty topics to represent a diverse history of the region. Our new exhibition, The Capital Region in 50 Objects, will show the results of this collaborative project.
The process of selecting fifty objects to represent the diverse history of the region was not easy, but thanks to the participation of numerous museums, historical societies, business entities, and private individuals the Institute has been able to assemble fifty objects that tell an amazing story of the Capital Region over the past four hundred years. Some of the objects in the exhibition will be immediately recognized as Capital Region icons, such as Albany’s beloved Nipper, the RCA dog that looks down from his rooftop perch on Broadway. Other objects, such as the Witenagemot oak peace tree from Knickerbocker Historical Society in Schaghticoke, may be little known to visitors, but the old oak tree represents a profoundly important event that took place in 1676 with the formalization of a peace treaty among English colonists, Mohawks, Mohicans, and Hoosacs, all of whom inhabited the area around the junction of the Hudson and Hoosick Rivers.
What else is in the exhibition? Let’s just say you’ll find objects such as an early automobile and a ticket booth, two cannons and a rocket booster, plus much more. Come and see if your favorite objects made the list.
In addition to the exhibition, family programs, special lectures, and demonstrations will broaden our appreciation of the Capital Region’s distinctive identity.
The Capital Region in 50 Objects was planned in partnership with the Times Union. This exhibition has been made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional funding has been provided by the New York Council for the Humanities and the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.
Dave Drake met us there. Then went to a sports bar for lunch with Liz Allen.
We then went off to see “Bridge of Spies” a very good Hollywood movie at the Spectrum 8.
Followed up with dinner at Vietnamese restaurant downtown. Van’s on Central Ave.
More work on office in barn, then pick up food at Letterbox Farm.
HAL information table at Farmers’ Market 11 to 1pm. Talked with quite a few people. More are aware and even enthused about the new library.
View out from table at Farmers’ Market
Good turnout. Chinese food after the reception with David Drake, Liz Allen, Ellen Slotnick.