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Rebecca and Judy,
If you want a great priced place to stay in NYC for a day or two or so, you're welcome to crash at my house, a c.1880 early arts and crafts bungalow (cottage) that I have installed a bunch of architecturally appropriate stained glass in... making it a pretty cool "stained glass house". Price is pretty good deal for NYC at $0 per nite! You could also visit my studio which is a small fringe outsider type shop you might find interesting. When are you traveling? If I'm in town and schedules mesh, you're welcome. Yellow Lab in residence. send your email address and I will reply with my address for mapquesting. I'm in Far Rockaway, Queens right near JFK, hour and a half subway to midtown, 45-60 min drive to city.
-Patrick Clark; http://www.SunlitesStainedGlass.com
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Rebecca
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dcs-ny wrote: Our studio is just across the bridge (on the p'keepsie side), in Rhinebeck. Great art community, wonderful little town, great places for a quick bite before heading down to p'keepsie.. You are also welcome to visit us if you have some time..Happy driving..
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Happy driving..
-Doris
I missed this the first time, Doris. We will try to visit. I'll email you or PM you about it. Thank you!
Rebecca
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Rebecca
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Krueger wrote: After you have your TOUR set up, perhaps that could be an AGG sponsored tour next year....or something like that. What do you think Rebecca?????
Barbara in Michigan
I will take pictures and make a list and see how it turns out.
Rebecca
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mmezalick
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Krueger wrote: After you have your TOUR set up, perhaps that could be an AGG sponsored tour next year....or something like that. What do you think Rebecca?????
Barbara in Michigan
So how would the sponsored tour thing work?
The AGG pays for the trip? Gas, food, lodging?
Michael
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Krueger
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Michael.....noooooo, how about having a traveling conference. You seem to have a lot of good photos of interesting places.....so, between you and Rebecca you might come up with a tour.
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mmezalick
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Krueger wrote: Michael.....noooooo, how about having a traveling conference. You seem to have a lot of good photos of interesting places.....so, between you and Rebecca you might come up with a tour.
Now that sounds like a Great Idea. Seriously
Michael
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Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this. I have been away from the computer a lot.
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all your help. And I can't wait to meet you in Buffalo at the starting line to "Rebecca and Judy's Wild Ride". I'm sure we will see a few of you along the road too.
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Judy and I started our trip by attending the AGG conference. From there we caught a ride to Syracuse where my son was in the process of moving. So we spent the first day there helping him and my daughter-in-law unpack boxes and carry furniture in from the rental truck. No glass the first day!
We are running WAY behind in posting about our trip, but we will try to catch up soon. Tomorrow we are leaving early to go to Poughkeepsie to visit a friend of Judy's, then we will head for New York City. We had planned to have a week there, but things have changed. We won't have nearly enough time to see all the things we had hoped to see.
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Hi everybody,
Thanks so much for your suggestions a few months ago. I have been soooooo busy since then. Once spring hits in the far north all the outside projects must be accomplished fast. And this year was even more crunched for time since I would be leaving for a month during our busy season.
Well the trip is on! It has been so exciting and we are spinning with information over load already.
Rebecca and I met in Buffalo for “Mr. Toads Wild Ride”. We have talked daily on line for around four years, but had never met face to face. Back in the fall Vic Rothman posted that the AGG was offering scholarships for stained glass people to get further education.
In 2005 Peter McGrain told me I needed to study under Dick Millard. I told Vic that would be the only class I would want to take but I did not know if he was still teaching. That began a whirl wind of events. Rebecca wanted to go but was afraid she could not draw. So I gave her drawing lessons on line and encouraged her. I almost backed out several times because I considered myself to rural to handle the east coast, she encouraged me. The fear of the unknown behind us ............... and we did it. We are here!
We began our adventure in Buffalo at the AGG conference, July 15. Wow! What a great bunch of people. Often times artists are guarded about sharing their craft with others in the same field, but this was not the case here. I learned so much and better yet I made friends with so many people that I can ask help from in the future if I come up with an odd question. They have seen it all collectively one time or another.
Then there are the windows.............. oh my goodness! Alaska has no glass to speak of. Here , every tiny town has 4 churches and they ALL have stained glass, some bad, some incredible. By meeting all the great folks in Buffalo we have been shown great windows all across this state. I had never seen a real Tiffany or La Farge before, nor had I seen or understood the reason for plating. Wow, have I learned a lot!
Then there is the sad side. With so many stained glass windows in one area I find that they are taken for granted to some extent. In Syracuse we saw a church that is literally falling down and in one end of the building is a window designed by Crosby Willet’s grand mother called the War Window. It is very unique to anything I had seen so far, but it will be ruined soon if something is not done to get it a new home soon.
Now I better understand why there is so much talk of restoration. I had no idea there were so many wonderful windows out there.
We have been so busy that I have not had time to post our trip daily like I had hoped. Right now we are on the train to Poughkeepsie and I will post a copy of this when I next encounter the internet. Saturday we head into NYC for a few days. By next Friday we will be in Boston. Sunday we pick up our car and go to Antrim, New Hampshire, for the crown jewel of the trip, to study painting under Dick Millard.
I can’t believe we are 1/2 way through our adventure already. We have a new supply of granola bars and clean laundry, life is good, :)
I’ll try to check back here again but I have not found any time to do that so far. We will definitely talk more in the Fall, as I sort my boat load of photos and information.
Thanks again everyone for your help in making this possible and pointing us in the right direction to encounter incredible windows to study.
Talk to you soon
Judy Killian
Last night we had a great time telling old stories, swimming, and grilling at an old friends houseLast edited on Sun Jul 26th, 2009 01:59 am by Judy K
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This whole trip has been 100% wonderful. Rebecca is the perfect travel partner for me. She does not mind splitting meals so we don't have left overs and she never complains.
Vic has a direct line to our guardian angel. He has helped us so many times by telling us where to go and what to do. Had I listen to him months ago I would have had all the details worked out then.
While Rebecca reads boards. I am still on line making many trip plans. Nothing is set in stone until it happens.
Like the extra shower this week for instance. We had just spent 5 hours in the Metropolitain Museum of Art wearing our feet off to stumps. Rebecca was such a good sport as I drug her past every single painting. I was specifically looking for a painting of Joan of Arc that I just love by Jules Bastien-Lepage.
When they closed the museum we were herded out the front door like cattle. We looked at the crowd headed for the bus and decided it was not that far to walk through Central Park , across town and to our hotel on Broadway.
We were half way there, on a trail around a Lake when the thunder and lightening started, then the rain, then the hail, then the driving wind and rain, then the rain that made it impossible to see and the trails and roads were 4 inches deep and running wild. I kept trying to see it as funny, but I was worried sick about my camera in my purse.
We finally slogged our way to the streets and 5 blocks later to our room. When I emptied my purse water ran out of it, but the camera and cell phone seem to be okay for now.
All I could think of was that I chose not to carry the umbrella this morning and it would have only served to maybe keep my purse dry but probably not in that squall. It was sink a small boat rain.
The Met was wonderful. It was fun to identify the ancient egyption core bottles, like we had seen in Corning. They were not listed as glass here but we knew what they were and how they were made. Too fun!
We have seen so much glass and talked to so many people about it that we are both starting to really notice our awareness of stained glass windows increase. I did not know part of this trip would be to get a tiny handle on glass history. What a trip!
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A quick note, a lull in the storm, ..... The day I arrived home (Aug 10) my sister arrived with her family of 7 children and husband. That is my excuse for not posting sooner and I am sticking to it. They left for a quick over night road trip but will return in about one hour ................
The rest of our time in NYC was perfect! We saw many churches and were blessed with a trip to Vic Rothmans and Mary Clerkin-Higgins studios. What a treat to talk glass at the level of work they have seen and accomplished over the years. A day or so later we were able to get up to The Cloisters and see some of the very old pieces Mary had worked on and shown us photos of before they were restored.
Drew Anderson at the conservatory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art showed us some old windows he was working on before they were sent out for a show on loan in Germany.
Julie Sloan was kind enough to take us up on the scaffolding of the St Thomas Cathedral project to show us the restoration work they were doing to those windows. It was absolutely fascinating!!!!!
I Love NYC! What a treat! I want to go back some day for sure. The trains and buses were easy to use and there was always something more to see. My only regrets are what we did not get to see. And who we did not get to see. Especially Pat who offered us a place to stay and Barbara and Tom in CT who were so good to us, and then we did not come, but chose to extend our stay in the Big Apple. xoxox to you Barbara and Tom for understanding.
Then we hurried off to Boston where we stayed with Rebecca's relatives friends. They were a blast and only a block or so from the train. So we went into Boston a couple times chasing down windows and were able to spend a whole day with Maria and Roberto at Serpentino's Studio. Wow what a great place. And everyone there was more than excited to tell us about what they were working on. That afternoon we were invited next door to the family restaurant for a birthday party for Mimo, Roberto's best friend. The food was great and the friendships even better. We were made to feel one of the family.
In Boston we left public transportation for the first time and rented a car to get to Antrim, New Hampshire. Thanks to google we had a trouble free drive straight to our new home at the Uplands Inn. Because three of Dick Millards students were budget conscious he had us over for a wonderful dinner the night before class started to get to know each other.
He had 5 students this class and we were quite international :) Leigh from Australia, Suzanne from Canada, Sharon from New Mexico, Rebecca from Tennessee, and Me the Alaskan. Leigh being the only guy and very young we spoiled him terrible by laughing at all his jokes. The Australian accent didn't hurt either.
It was so fun to talk all week about glass in different parts of the world. Dick was very interested in all the people involved in these places. He is a walking encyclopedia of who is and has been involved in the stained glass field that he loves so much.
Dick and Vicki Millard were a real treat to be around. They were often caught up in our frolicking nature. But don't let me mislead you to think that the class was not serious. It was the best laid out art technique class I have ever taken! For me, natural talent and skill are two radically different things. This class, and my objective, was to gain skill in painting technique and I was NOT disappointed at all! Dick makes sure that each step is engrained before moving on to the next step. So that by the time you put it all together there is absolutely no confusion. I loved it!
Thank you Dick! I hope I can come back for painting 2 some day.
The Uplands Inn was a real treat too. The Inn owner, Vic, took us under his wing. One night he took us out to the barn to play with his old Lionel Train set up. It was just like the one my dad had as a kid, and I helped destroy :)
One day Vic showed us a warm lake to swim in. After that, every night I swam by full moonlight alone. Unbelievably Perfect!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
One night we went to the Bursitis Brothers rock concert and were asked to sing back up for one of the songs. I LOVE to sing but am almost phobic about mics. Good Time! The leader of the band is a clay potter and friend of Vic, the inn keeper.
Then there was the midnight walks to the 1776 cemetery. Certainly enough laughter to wake the dead.
As a group I could not have asked for a better bunch of students to be a part of. It was hard to say good-by. I had actual anxiety about having to go home to the daily routine here.
Rebecca, sorry I have not written. But feel reassured I don't write my family members often. You truly are the big sister I never had. xoxoxoxox Once my natural little sister and her herd leave we will talk about putting this all in writing. And maybe we should consider Michael's idea of taking others on this trip or another one like it some day.
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giggle, not to a polar bear. :)
(cold is the 23 degrees I just now woke up to in the camper. I am looking forward to getting my bed back Saturday :) Last edited on Thu Aug 20th, 2009 01:58 pm by Judy K
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You left just in time; we finally hit the 90s about a week ago, with a near equal jump in humidity. First time since a freak occurrence in April.
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