The New York Times had an interesting article yesterday morning on moving houses. This had me running through my (very limited) photo archives to turn up “moving pictures,” right here in Salem. Of course the BIGGEST project was Gatke Hall, formerly the Salem Post Office and for years in the Guinness Book of records as […]
Category: Salem
November Shows…
We made the rounds yesterday…a little anti-war or post 9-11 show at the Gretchen Shuette Gallery at the community college had some nice pieces from other shows this decade including one of April Water’s big women (Cindy Sheehan in this case) this nice piece done by Rob Bibler and Carol Hausser for an anti-war show […]
Porch Newsnotes…
In 1901 the porch on our house (which, in 1901, sat at the corner of Court and 17th facing east) was not the same porch that we have now. (left to right rear:C.B.Moores, Martin Chamberlin, Lenore Chamberlin Weller. Center row: Rose Weller Chamberlin, Sallie Chamberlin Moores, Mrs. Hollister, Dr. Joseph Hollister. Botoom row: Mary Chamberlin […]
Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
L&S…the Photo Session…and on
Yesterday was a busy one, beginning in the basement of the Hallie Ford Museum where the excellent Frank Miller came to photograph a few of the Lord & Schryver drawings for publicity use. Frank arrived with tons of equipment and quickly set up…ready to shoot: My CO-curator Sharon Rose was on hand, and the first […]
Salem Buildings…
K. Williams Brown quoted me in a column in the SJ Sunday , and we had a thoughtful conversation Friday about Salem architecture. The columnist, only here two years…from the south originally, was wanting to write about the “new brutalist” nature of public buildings, and lamenting that Oregonians don’t appreciate good architecture. Over the weekend […]
A Salem sort of day…
Today, after a tiny but delicious lunch R made before heading to the beach, I got checking the Salem Blogs. Emily, over at Desperately Seeking Salem, was talking about cherry blossoms so later…on my drive-about…I went to check them out remembering how annoyed I was when they cut down all the walnut trees in the […]
SPRING!!!!
It’s winter, it’s winter, it’s winter…and then suddenly…it’s spring. How did that happen so fast? Here’s what’s happening out there today…
Art at the Capitol…
Besides being a day of “love,” February 14th is also the birthday of Oregon’s statehood…1859…and here’s the mural in the senate chamber at the Capitol picturing the horseman arriving (…at Champoeg maybe…?) with the announcement that Oregon is now a state… and though I AM a loyal Oregonian, I wasn’t there for the birthday party. […]
Lord & Schryver…February
Sharon and I made…we hope…our last trip to the Knight Library at University of Oregon on Wednesday…a foggy morning on the freeway We are preparing (“independent curators” we like to think) a show on the Salem landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, and their work in the region from 1929 to 1960. All the […]
On The Way 