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Marie was assigned to work in Trenton, New Jersey for one year, so we planned to make the most of it and do all we could while we were in the area. This post is about our adventures airline flight deals in and around New Jersey from the beginning of September 2005 to the end of August 2006.
While we were there we got involved. airline flight deals Marie went to life drawing, took a creativity workshop, and had an Art show in New Hope. I played in three community bands, answered phones for the PBS station airline flight deals fund drive, and we both helped out with Winterfest in Lambertville.
We can t avoid history when speaking of New Jersey, and especially Trenton. The military victory on December 26, by George Washington and his army was crucial in the war for independence. After crossing the icy Delaware River to Trenton, they defeated the Hessian troops garrisoned there. Trenton was briefly the nation s capital in 1784 and considered for the permanent capital. airline flight deals It became the state capital in 1790.
A famous relic of Trenton's more immediate past as major manufacturing center was the slogan "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" displayed on the Delaware River Bridge. The city adopted the slogan in the 1920s to represent Trenton's leading role at the time as a major manufacturing center for steel, rubber, wire, rope, linoleum and ceramics.
And very few know that in 1896 the first professional basketball game was played in Trenton. Alright, I ll stop. While Trenton has many diverse distractions, there was not a lot of Art to be seen in the city. Ellarslie Mansion, built in 1848 as centerpiece for Cadwalader Park (designed by Frederick Law Olmsted), airline flight deals had occasional exhibitions of local Art, but was primarily a city history museum. So we ll look at Art on a regional basis.
The Grounds For Sculpture airline flight deals was just outside airline flight deals Trenton on the site of the old New Jersey airline flight deals State Fair in Hamilton. The display actually began outside the Grounds on the side of the I-95 exit for Hamilton, and other works led the way through an industrial area to the park.
There were a few of the original fair buildings, but the main exhibition hall was new and the other major facility was the workshop of J. Seward Johnson. Johnson was famous for his outsized sculptures of the subjects for famous paintings. The Art was terrific and the sculptures were displayed in a variety of settings, making the journey through the park even more enjoyable.
Opened to the public in 1992, the park had a collection of over 240 works, including airline flight deals sculptures by renowned artists Clement Meadmore, Anthony Caro, Beverly Pepper, Kiki Smith, and New Jersey sculptor George Segal. Some of the works in the collection were commissioned specifically for the sculpture park, such as Magdalena Abakanowicz s Space of Stone and New Jersey artist Isaac Witkin airline flight deals s Garden State . Click here for more pics.
Food was a major aspect of our Trenton adventures. From the calamari airline flight deals at Amici Milano s, in Trenton s Chambersburg area, to the paella at Malaga Restaurant, at the edge of Chambersburg, to the stuffed cabbage at the Ukrainian church. Trenton s real contribution to our culinary journey was the Tomato Pie .
Unlike an ordinary pizza, the Tomato Pie featured the tomato sauce being spread over the toppings. DeLorenzo s on Hudson Street was one of the local favorites, and we like Top Road on Brunswick Avenue, as well.
We went to galleries and openings in the area. Rider College, The College of New Jersey, and the Pennington School had shows in LAWRENCEVILLE. HOPEWELL had a variety of locations for Art, such as the Morpeth Studio, Gallery 14, the old train depot, and others. In BORDENTOWN we went to a reception for Russian (now living in Princeton) artist Gennady Spirin at Artful Deposit. PRINCETON, airline flight deals however, was the major local Art resource. And while there were several commercial galleries and Art centers, the Princeton University Art Museum was the place.
A truly wonderful museum founded in 1882, with everything from the Art of the Ancients to Modern and Contemporary. There were over 72,000 works of Art. The collections included paintings from Fra Angelica to Willen de Koonig. Click here to see more pictures.
There were also more than twenty sculptures around campus that made up the Putnam Collection. Sculptures like Henry Moore's Oval with Points and Louise Nevelson's Atmosphere and Environment X . At least one of those artworks has an interesting story. Alexander Calder's Five Disks: One Empty , 1969-70, was intentionally painted in Princeton's colors of orange and black. Calder, however, was very displeased and had the orange blackened as that was not one of his colors. Click here for a full list.
For me the premiere attraction in this area, was the Delaware Raritan Bike Trail . In its heyday (1834-1933) the main canal connecting the Delaware and Raritan rivers from Trenton to New Brunswick was used for transporting mainly coal from Pennsylvania to the industrial cities in northern New Jersey and New York City. Now there are sixty miles of bike trails.
While the trail went all the way through airline flight deals Trenton, a good place to begin a ride north was at Upper Ferry Road. The trail and canal followed airline flight deals the Delaware pretty closely providing lovely views. It was a beautiful ride, especially in the autumn. In addition to views, this trail offered a variety of sites and attractions along the way.
WASHINGTON S CROSSING airline flight deals was where Washington crossed the Delaware. There were parks on both sides of the river. We attended the reenactment which had not been held for a number of years due to freezing and snowy conditions. However, while it was cold and rainy, the reenactors made the trip across the river without mishap.
LAMBERTVILLE was a real Art town. Of course, it was across airline flight deals the river from New Hope, PA, a famous and historic Art town, having hosted Art Tourists since the 1800s. In addition to more than twenty-five Art galleries and the beauty of the Delaware River, Lambertville was full of charm and offered many restaurants airline flight deals and shops. Lambertville and New Hope held Art openings on the Second Saturday of each month. More about New Hope later.
Continuing again on the bicycle trip north, the next town was STOCKTON, about three and a half-miles. The Covered Bridge Artisans held studio tours around Stockton, Sargeantsville and Lambertville. Another cute town, the highlight here is just north of town at Prallsville, the site of a mill since around 1720. There was an Art gallery in the old linseed mill.
Twelve miles upriver is FRENCHTOWN. Another really airline flight deals nice town of about 1,500 residents. Several galleries, shops, and nice old buildings. The bike trail continued for a while north of town, but then it ended.
We took lots of trips around the area to find what Art we could. From idyllic country settings to inner city, there was lots to see. Let s start with the Hunterdon Museum of Art in CLINTON, just north of I-78. A nineteenth century stone mill (that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1952) was converted into a lovely space for enjoying Art. Changing exhibitions of contemporary airline flight deals Art were offered. The nearby main street was also very nice. I found it remarkable airline flight deals that this town of 2,600 supported two bead stores.
airline flight deals The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum was part of Rutgers University in NEW BRUNSWICK. Collections there comprised a number of areas of focus with over 60,000 works of art. Strengths include Russian and Soviet art, 19th-century French Art and American Art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Heading north to NEWARK, we found the Newark Art Museum surrounded by heavy construction. Looked like they were putting in trolley tracks from the train station toward the downtown. We didn t explore too much. The museum had impressive collections including many from the Hudson River School. There were also paintings by Childe Hassam, Mary Cassat, John Singer Sargent, Winslow airline flight deals Homer and several by George Inness. Works by other, less known artists were well done. A Calder mobile hung in the atrium.
There was a recreation of Alfred Steiglitz s 291 Gallery the first dedicated to contemporary art. Exhibit featured Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, Robert Motherwell, Arthur Dove and, of course, Georgia O Keefe. A video showing a few minutes of film recorded in 1903 by Edison s company: going over the Brooklyn Bridge with the camera mounted on the front of a train; Coney Island, including Steeplechase and Flume; laborers riveting airline flight deals girders on New York skyscraper. There were also works by Louise Nevelson and Edward Hopper.
Another floor had Chinese Korean wedding finery; Japanese prints; Tibetan displays. All nicely done. There was an extraordinary collection of ancient glass objects from Israel, Egypt, Rome, Greece that came mostly from one man that was added to.
After filling out a questionnaire in exchange for price admission, we went out of the modernish (ugly) entry into a more classical museum setting. There was a very nice display of Native American artifacts before the exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein s works relating to the Native Americans. There were also several examples of artists whose styles Lichtenstein imitated.
There was a special room for a dozen or so large paintings by George Inness, who happened to be from Montclair. American artists exclusively, there were paintings by many of the Hudson River School. Also, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Robert airline flight deals Motherwell. There was a wall sculpture by Louise Nevelson entitled airline flight deals Black Zag A which used found wood (spools, stamp pad handles, clothes pins, moldings).
The sculpture collection included Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Thomas Ball, Elie Nadelman, Chaim Gross, Theodore airline flight deals Roszak, George Segal, Louise Nevelson, and Mel Edwards. The museum had more than 18,000 pieces of Art.
Unlike the television show, the Jersey Shore offers plenty of fine Art. Let s begin in the extreme south with CAPE MAY. Famous for its many Victorian structures, the entire town is a National Historic Landmark. A perfect pl