All of a sudden it dawned on me that it was going to be Memorial Day weekend. In the camping world, weekends and holidays , especially during the summer is when it becomes very hard to find a camping spot.
Luckily, I found an Elks lodge in Burlington, Vermont, that takes in RVers. The nice part of this particular lodge was that they supplied electricity which was necessary because it was cold and, as usual, rainy. I wasn't planning on going to Burlington but as luck would have it, the Shelburne Museum was just down the road.
Electra Havemeyer Webb came from one of those ultra-rich families. She created what she called a “collection of collections”. She brought historical buildings (a jail, lighthouse, general store, covered bridge, 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga, etc. ) to a 45-acre site in Shelburne. Inside each of these buildings she displayed her widespread collections that reflected her eclectic interests.
For 27 years, Higher Ground has been showcasing concerts in the complex.
They have had a lot of big name artists. This was a room filled with the silk-screened posters.
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| This is the circus building. There is 525 linear feet of a circus train in here |
One of the participants in the circus train 
Cyanotype uses light sensitive iron salts to produce images by exposing to light objects on treated paper or fabric. Created in 1842, it became a tool for reproducing architectural blueprints. 
Garden of Eden
Dahlov Ipcar
Made from fabric pieces
Calico Pair
Dahlov Ipcar
Ipcar also wrote and illustracted books and then made fabric animals from the books 
Bandboxes 
A room full of Crazy Quilts 
Minatures in bottles 
Scrimshaw 
More Scrimshaw 
Glass Canes 
Grandma Moses paintings
I thought Grandma Moses was a real old timey person but she died in 1961
which is fairly contemporary
The Ticonderoga
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