Although our original purpose for stopping at Chadds Ford was to go to the Brandywine River Museum, we decided to first go to Longwood Gardens. That piece of spontaneousness saved the day because as it turned out, Longwood Gardens was wonderful even in the Winter and the Brandywine Museum was getting ready for the next days opening of the Jamie Wyeth exhibit that we already saw at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Two thirds of the museum was closed, taken up with the Jamie Wyeth exhibit.
After all the planning and preparing it is always liberating to finally be on the road. It is even nicer when the weather gods cooperate with dry roads and bright blue sunny skies. Our first stop was the traditional one at Reins Deli in Vernon, CT for lunch provisions (chopped liver on light rye) and then, speaking of Rye, it was on to Rye, New York for a one hour visit to the Rye Arts Center to view "Irving Harper a Mid-Century Mind at Play". Harper who is still with us at age 98 worked as an industrial designer for Herman Miller and Heywood Wakefield among others. To combat stress he began creating sculptures and 3-dimensional works of art and stopped 40 years later when he had filled up his 3 story farm house. We continued along our way and crossed the Delaware Memorial Bridge before the sun set. On the agenda for tomorrow is Longwood Gardens and the Brandywine River Museum of Art.
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