The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey was founded as a children’s museum in 1913. Over the decades it grew its children’s collection and expanded into other areas, such as art and natural sciences. But …
We did some birding while traveling around over the holidays. These are from the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, Codorus State Park in Pennsylvania, and Cape May Point in New Jersey. These are very common birds, …
We went to Cape May for their holiday house tours, and squeezed in a tour of the Emlen Physick Estate while we were there. The 18-room mansion was designed by renowned architect Frank Furness in …
We went to the Reading Public Museum to see an Impressionism exhibit, but had this M.C. Escher (1898-1972) exhibit on our radar, as well. It went on and on, room after room – what a …
I think it goes without saying at this point that a museum with an Impressionism exhibit has got my number. The exhibit at the Reading Public Museum was focused only on American artists, but still …
The Reading Public Museum is a small museum with a diverse collection in Reading, Pennsylvania. We went specifically to see the exhibit American Impressionism: Inside/Out, but of course checked out their other offerings while we …
We’ve both been to Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania several times, but this time we went to the Amish Farm and House for a tour. The farmhouse dates to 1805, when Isaac and Mary Evans …
I wound up at the Staatsburgh State Historic Site in Staatsburg, New York on a whim when the timing of other things on my radar didn’t work out quite as planned. But wow, was I …
Here are a few items of interest from some adventures around the state as I zipped in and out over two different visits (clearly one trip last summer and a second trip this winter!). Bartlett …
I toured Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York many years ago, but read that it gets over-the-top decorated for Christmas, so I made a detour to check it out. It was …
