We has a reasonable nights sleep in our Air Band B a quick granola based breakfast and a cup of tea. We then went into Brookline for a cup of coffee before taking the trolly bus in to Boston. Off to the Museum of modern art in Boston. Journey was very simple and we were soon there the cost of $25 each for entry was a bot harsh but there is so much to see that the ticket can be used again with in a set period of time so if you sort of look at it over two days of entry is is not too bad. We spent some time looking at the Photographs taken by Gordon Parkes . He was the first Black photographer hired by Time magazine and the exhibition is a collection of the photographs he took of his classmates some fifteen years after they had left school,The exhibition and the related written matter was very arresting highlighting the segregation issues that were still very obvious in the 1950.
Also saw some fine clocks made in the English style of tall clocks on in particular took my eye. The finial carving was exactly the same a a cabinet finial carving, the clock case and the piece of furniture made by the same person? , not often seen in the UK , may have came from a small factory the finial being the house style..? but it was interesting.
Lunch in the garden cafe salad and soup which while expensive was nice. then back to the american art galleries . Saw the Urine paintings? by Hockney and the some of the drip pantings by Pollock. Also saw a lot of portraits of the great and the good by Copley and others.
The European galleries were interesting rather apologetic Tompion was listed as an english clock by Tompion no more, nice little long case. There were Matisse Degas you name it they were there! there was also a stunning Turner . It was a very good five or six hours and we could have stayed longer but closing time is quite early. There were a few of the decorative American clocks on display but none working, as far as I could tell.
Back into Boston this time to find the 'Cheers' bar location if you know about Cheers, then your age is showing! We did find the bar went in and looked around saw the set bar and looked at all the merchandise which was huge. A nice walk down Charles street? where at the Charles Street supply shop I bought a screwdriver! and we were at the river, walked alone the front and then cut back to the town .
Back to Brookline by trolly bus, a visit to 'Trader Joe' got us supplied for a picnic back at our B and B Bagels cheese and hummus nice... I was then given a very quick lesson in how to use the I phone, by our host Joyce assisted buy her dog snowy, which was very handy.
I then used the screwdriver to carry out a major repair to one of the ply adaptors i had bought to convert UK three pins to american two pins. The screw driver cost me $5 to repair an adapt on that possible cost less.... but I now have a nice small yellow screwdriver as a keep sake of boston who could ask for more. As an Engineer I should really travel with a full tool kit, because you never know when over the tannoy comes the call 'is there an engineer in the house'.......
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