It is time to start heading home. Checking my maps, I will be traveling along the southern edge of the Great Lakes. But look!! Just a few miles north of the freeway, is the hamlet of Detroit! I've only been to a few concerts in Detroit (Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin), back in the day, perhaps it is time to actually visit the area.
But first, perhaps I should stop in Cooperstown, home of the Baseball National Hall of Fame. I haven't really been a fan of baseball since Tony Oliva and Zoilo Versailles left the Twins back in the mid 70s. So instead I went to the Fenimore Art Museum, known for it's folk art collection.
Old Schoolhouse in Summer Emily Pettigrew |
Mother and Child in Boat (quite the imaginative name) Mary Cassatt There was a large Mary Cassatt exhibit - not folk art |
Seated Girl With Strawberries Joshua Johnson(America's 1st professional African American portrait painter) |
Charles E. & Octavia C. Adams William Matthew Prior |
Is it me or does it seem that folk artists seem to paint very large heads on their subjects?
It seems you can't have folk art without weathervanes |
Score! A Georgia O'Keeffe! |
Detroit and the surrounding area has tons of stuff to do, history, culture, nature – a real plethora of activities. After much thought, I guess I am just sort of tuckered out. I spent four days, hanging around the campground with only one field trip out. The campground had many seasonal campers. I think many families used this campground as their lake place. The campground had a walking trail that surrounded the lake. The big draw besides the ice cream (Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle), were the bouncy toys. I have never seen so many giant bouncy toys all in one place.
My hike around the lake |
Ninja Warrior's Bouncy House |
The start of the Ninja Warrior extravaganza |
Bouncy stuff in the water |
A casualty! Something scraped me down to the wood. Don't know how it happened, I know my driving could not have caused this. Good thing I had my Eternabond to save the day. |
I was out doing my blog on the picnic table. This little guy with super big eyes wanted to be friends. I would move him away and everytime he would come back. He was tiny but mighty. |
Ok, so I guess I had one more museum in me |
Kahlil Gibran was a Leabanese American who wrote The Prophet, one of the best selling books of all time |
At first I thought this was a picture of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca but no...The black cube is a magnet encircled by thousands of iron filings. As the magnet is turned, the iron forms patterns. |
Rajie Cook was a Palestinian American. Cook is internationally known for creating symbols seen in public buildings and airports. |
Guernica in Gaza Rajie Cook Inspired by Picasso's anti-war painting guernica (1937) which draws attention to the horrors and human costs of war |
Located behind the Arab American Museum was an Arab grocery store, about half the size of a Costco, in other words...huge. So many fruits, vegetables and other groceries of which I had absolutely no idea what they were. It was quite the treat to shop there.
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