Clio Newton at Tart Gallery, Zürich, June 22 - June 23, 2017

Photograph of Artist Clio Newton with Charcoal Drawing is Used with Permission

Join Clio Newton next Friday night for her most recent exhibition of large scale drawings, "Go from Home".

When: June 23rd 6 pm for the finissage with drinks and snacks

Where: Tart Gallery, Gotthardstrasse 54, Zürich.

As part of the exhibition she'll be drawing in the gallery all Thursday.

• Tart Gallery <http://tartart.ch/exhibitions/24hrs-project-go-from-home-with-clio-newton/>

Loon Preservation Committee's Loon Nest Live Cam, New Hampshire

• Loon Preservation Committee <http://www.loon.org/>

Along the Garden Path, June

Mallow

19th Century English Staffordshire Whippets

What Are Your First Signs That Summer Has Arrived?

Multiple MG convertible sightings?  Del's frozen lemonade trucks?  Pool company trucks coming down the drive?  The blinking clocks in the summer house?  What are your signs that summer has arrived?

A Wet Cloverdale Golden

Madras Shorts

Cape Madras Shorts Sent By Cape Madras <https://capemadras.com/>

Mercer Seersucker on the Water

White Cotton Sweater

Schneiders of Salzburg

• Schneiders of Salzburg <http://www.schneiders.com/>

Life on the Connecticut Shore: Sailing, 1962

Original Photographs from Archives

Narragansett Bay: A Herreshoff or Two - Firefly and Whistler

Firefly <https://www.herreshoffregistry.org/detail.php?hull=956>

There are always interesting boats to be seen around Narragansett Bay, including a Herreshoff or two.

Mother, Early 1940's, Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

On the Mail Boat

How To Get Your Cardio and Kill Your Dog on the Same Hot Summer Day: An Essay by Michael Rowe

The Author's Dog, Beckett

Editor's Note: As it is heating up, this is a timely reminder.  This guest-post by Michael Rowe was originally published in SWNE last year.  Encouragingly, this essay was subsequently picked up by the Huffington Post where it was shared widely.  Feel free to share this on Facebook using the button below.

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I was closer to murder this evening than I generally care to be.

I live in a leafy enclave of a major city. It's a hip neighbourhood—a nice mix of progressive, well-educated young couples, retirees, and a smattering of young families. In the winter, kids and their parents toboggan on a nearby hill. There are two beautiful parks that are always full. It's a nice community full of nice people, for the most part.

How Do You Prepare Your Pea Shoots?

Out and About

In Case You Missed It

The Yale Center for British is hosting Art in Focus: The British Castle—A Symbol in Stone (Photograph from SWNE Archives)

From Country Life's Whisky to Spectator 's Lemonade - and Dogs:

• Nicholas Soames gets on his high horse - Coffee House <https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/nicholas-soames-races-finish-line/>

• Father's Day whisky- What to buy, from £23 to £2,000 - Country Life <http://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-drink/whisky-fathers-day-seven-gifts-single-malt-lover-life-159519>

• Forget the policies - election day is all about the dogs at polling stations - Country Life <http://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/dogs/forget-policies-election-day-dogs-polling-stations-159859>

• How Bots Are Inflating Instagram Egos - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/business/media/instagram-bots.html>

• The Coat of Arms Said ‘Integrity.’ Now It Says ‘Trump.’ - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/business/trump-coat-of-arms.html>

• What No One Ever Tells You About Tiny Homes - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/realestate/what-no-one-ever-tells-you-about-tiny-homes.html>

• LePage: Released prisoners could fill job vacancies in tourism industry <http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/01/lepage-released-prisoners-could-fill-job-vacancies-in-tourism-industry/>

• This Ever New Self- Thoreau and His Journal - at The Morgan Library & Museum <http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/thoreau> and at The Concord Museum <http://www.concordmuseum.org/This-Ever-New-Self.php>

• Why I’m Moving Home - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/why-im-moving-home.html>

• Homeless dog shelters in London- Dogs on the Streets - Tatler <http://www.tatler.com/news/articles/may-2017/homeless-weekly-dog-shelter-london>

• How to make classic lemonade - Spectator Life <https://life.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/how-to-make-classic-lemonade/>

• Art in Focus- The British Castle—A Symbol in Stone - Yale Center for British Art <http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/art-focus-british-castle-symbol-stone>

• Maine family gives ‘transformational’ $50 million gift to Bates College - Portland Press Herald <http://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/16/maine-family-donating-50-million-to-bates-college/>

• This week's Sunday Telegraph column - Sophia Money-Coutts <http://sophiamoneycoutts.com/this-weeks-sunday-telegraph-column-10/>

• 24 magnificent show animals who impressed the judges at Royal Windsor - Horse & Hound <http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/24-magnificent-show-animals-impressed-judges-royal-windsor-2-620906>

• Wharf auction could alter Harpswell’s working waterfront – The Forecaster <http://www.theforecaster.net/wharf-auction-could-alter-harpswells-working-waterfront/>

Early Market

Veneration

David Hackett Fischer wrote in Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) <http://amzn.to/2rQBVzq>:

From childhood to the grave, the Puritans of Massachusetts had strong views on every stage of life. This was specially the case in regard to old age, and age-relations in general. On these subjects, the customs of New England were shaped by Puritan beliefs.  

In the twentieth century, Americans share an exceptionally strong bias toward youth. We fear the process of aging, and despise old age. Further, our system of social rank is so centered on wealth that other criteria of status such as age operate only when they can be translated into materialist terms. So dominant is our materialistic ranking system today that other customs are not merely unfamiliar; they are inconceivable.  

The people of seventeenth-century New England lived in another world. They carefully cultivated an attitude of respect for the old, and ranked people in proportion to their age. “These two qualities go together, the ancient and the honorable,” wrote Cotton Mather. “If any man is favored with long life,” wrote Increase Mather, “it is God who has lengthened his days.”  

The moral posture which young people were taught to assume before their elders was unlike that of any other social relationship. It was summarized in a word now lost from common usage: veneration, which came from the Latin deponent verb veneror, venerari, “to regard with religious awe and reverence.” Veneration took on a special meaning among the Puritans, who more than others made a cult of age.  

...They believed that the small numbers of godly men and women who lived to old age were the saving remnant of the race. Every Puritan moralist who wrote upon this subject agreed that old age was a sign of grace. 

Monhegan Boat Crew

Mid-Coast

What to Keep...?

Tiffany Box, Flask from DOJ, Steuben Pig

There is a category of things.  They are small.  They would not normally be acquired.  They were given out of kindness, and refer to some specific event or in-joke, but not some important life milestone.  They are too nice to throw away, so must be "placed" with some care if the decision is made to let them go. The easiest thing is to keep them, but they do accumulate over time.

What criteria do people use to keep such things?  And how are things disposed, when that decision is reached?

On Narragansett Bay

There are always interesting boats to be seen around Narragansett Bay.  This boat, above, had been seen a few weeks earlier with just a dinghy, below.

Steichen

Original 1960's Photographs from Archives

•  Edward Steichen: In Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/edward-steichen-in-vogue-125189608/>

Maine's Lupine Season

F.L. Woods Italian Wool Burgess Blazer - Made in the US

Made in the US

It may seem odd to many to be talking about wool garments in June, but perhaps not to those who spend time on the water, especially points north, or Down East, where the water never warms up and the nights are appreciably cooler.  A bit of insulation can be very useful.  This is especially true for some categories of social gatherings - boat yard bakes or meeting friends on the foredeck of something docked, moored, or anchored - where events can devolve to taking some vessel out for a quick run.

Given that, there is a category of clothes that enables one to be presentable: while getting in and out of dinghys, off of and on to docks (even fixed docks at low tide), and up and down various ladders; experiencing at least some spray; and when the temperature drops by 20 degrees and the wind picks up.  And while synthetic fabrics have their place, there is something quite wonderful about the temperature regulating properties as well as the quietness of wool.   F.L. Woods tends to meet this challenge head on.  Here are two new items.

• Italian Wool Burgess Blazer <http://www.flwoods.com/product/italian-wood-burgess-blazer>

• Sopwith Sweater in Forest Green <http://www.flwoods.com/product/sopwith-sweater>