"It had a sign outside it saying Museum of the Americas, but no one ever visited it. Anyway, so he opened this door, turned on the lights one by one, and
the sight that met my eyes is something I shall never, ever forget because instead of a congregation of people in this disused church,
it was a congregation of portraits."
Philip Mould, an art expert and a host of the British version of Antiques Roadshow, describes an early business trip where he met
Earle Newton. Newton's home grown Museum of the Americas,
a collection of over 300 rare 17th- and 18th-century English and American portraits, was housed in a nondescript church on the side of a road in rural Vermont. The collection, later valued at over nine million dollars, became the
Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design upon Newton's death.
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posted by jessamyn
on Nov 9, 2010 -
14 comments
"All Creeds. All Breeds. No Dogmas Allowed." Whether you are a dog person or not, you have probably seen Stephen Huneck's
woodcut illustrations,
sculptures,
furniture or
children's books. The man clearly likes his canines. About eight years ago, a
wild idea came to him shortly after he returned home with his wife and three dogs following a near-fatal illness that left him in a coma for two months. He was inspired to build a non-denominational chapel on his 400-acre mountain-top farm in St. Johnsbury (named "Dog Mountain," naturally), and to style it in the manner of a small village church built in Vermont around 1820. He then opened
Dog Chapel to the public.
"I look at this chapel as the largest artwork of my life, and my most personal." he says.
It looks cool. Woof.
posted by miss lynnster
on May 29, 2007 -
16 comments
