Elmira College received the study from a Langdon family member in 1952. The Langdons are Twain's wife's people. New York State is really very pretty. I enjoyed our ride from Maine through New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. You grew up in a very pretty area, Stan. And Elmira College has some wonderfully Gothic interiors. Cheers, Christine
Sent from my iPad > On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > > Thanks for the virtual road trip. > I particularly enjoyed the shot of the two of you in Elmira - a very nice > selfie! > I also liked the several of kids around the Liberty Bell. > Elmira is home country for me; that is the big city we drove to when we went > shopping. I bought my first car from a used car lot in Elmira! And then even > though I went to Cornell, in Ithaca a short drive away, my favorite cousin > went to Elmira College and through her I met and dated a few students there. > I must say I never payed much attention to the Twain connection to the area. > Nice to have some glimpses through someone else’s eyes. > > stan > >> On Jun 26, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone: >> >> Just a few road trip pics—nothing great. We visited a lot of author homes, >> but unfortunately no interior photography was allowed, so I spared you the >> exterior shots of the houses. I do include Mark Twain’s Study—an octagon >> shaped building specifically built for him at his in-laws’ farm near Elmira, >> NY—built so he could write undisturbed during his summer visits to the farm. >> This building is now owned by Elmira College and located on campus. There >> was no student ambassador around to let us in, but I took some photos >> through the windows and converted to BW. They are included here. >> >> Visiting the author homes was great—fun to stand in Emerson’s study, the >> bedrooms where Little Women was written (Concord, MA) and that tiny women in >> Amherst, MA penned all those delightful poems, and, of course, seeing the >> Seven Gables that inspired the House of Seven Gables was fun as well (Salem, >> MA). Twain’s home in Hartford, CT is absolutely amazing and very well >> preserved, but interestingly, the Emerson family STILL owns Emerson’s home: >> the tour guide informed us, “We all work for the Emerson family.” Something >> really cool about that. Sara Orne Jewett’s house in South Berwick, ME is >> also a great house, but the town is not much to speak of. >> >> I’d never seen Philly, so we did all the historical stuff in one day, then >> left early the next for Hartford et al. Spent a few days in Boston—Freedom >> Trail, Boat ride, and Museum of Fine Arts—the Copley collection there is >> fantastic—then headed for Salem, MA. >> >> We also paid homage to author tombstones, but I spared you those photos as >> well, though Sleepy Hollow was amazing—many pilgrims travel to these markers >> and leave stones, pencils, pens, other trinkets—lots of small stones at >> Dickinson’s marker. Chronic dappled lighting made the markers somewhat of >> challenge to photograph. Famous people seem to love pretty spots near trees. >> >> We traveled for 16 days by car, moved on nearly every 1-3 days. As I look >> back now it was a dizzying pace, and the driving challenging: I nearly got >> us killed at a small round-about in Concord, MA. >> >> And we drove 12 hours straight from Elmira, NY to Chicago. The drive home >> started early, and we had the road nearly to ourselves, enjoying the quiet, >> morning fog, and the lovely tree studded hills and valleys of NY. But then >> a large doe jumped out in front of us. Fortunately, Darrel swerved right, >> the doe kept left, leaving no damage to car, person, or animal. I gushed >> over Darrel for his quick response, and the trip continued uneventful, that >> is, until we were literally 5 minutes from home. At a speed about 15 miles >> per hour, I turned a corner for the final 5 minute stretch home, only to >> have to slow down to let one of our neighborhood deer, traveling about .5 >> miles per hour, cross the road. Uncanny! >> >> Anyway, here are the pics! Cheers, Christine >> http://www.caguila.com/pdmllit/index.html >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
