Arts · Jamie Thingelstad

August 9, 2021

Ever since we did our Charlie Brown Tree with Adam Gale of Rust n’ Grain I’ve found myself appreciating tree carvings more. I love this Moose that was in the Flume Gorge visitor center. I especially liked the details.

Two children stand beside a tall carved wooden moose statue dressed as a hiker inside the Flume Gorge visitor center in New Hampshire.

Carved wooden moose wearing a New Hampshire Parks and Recreation hat and bandana, holding a backpack decorated with state park patches including Mt. Washington and Franconia Notch.

Large wooden moose carving seen from behind wearing a carved backpack painted with NH state outline in American flag colors and NH lettering inside Flume Gorge visitor center

Carved wooden moose backpack detail showing New Hampshire Parks and Recreation patch, Flume Gorge and Lafayette Place stickers, and a blue butterfly

Close-up of a carved wooden moose torso wearing shorts with a pocket note reading Moose-A-Laneous List of things to do at the Flume: 1. Have Fun!

August 8, 2021

Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium

We visited the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium today in St. Johnsbury, VT. The museum has been operating since 1889, and is a bit of a museum piece itself. It shows what this type of museum would have been like a hundred years ago, with only small modifications to the displays. We also took in two sessions at the planetarium.

Taxidermied polar bear standing upright in a museum gift shop, with a stuffed gorilla toy in a white t-shirt and yellow hat seated on a bench below it

Regina music box, the first made in the US, open wooden case showing perforated metal disc, displayed in a museum for 5 cents

Interior of a Victorian natural history museum with a barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, taxidermy birds, glass display cases, and a mezzanine gallery.

Taxidermied polar bear and Dall sheep mounted in a glass display case labeled Arctic Mammals at a natural history museum

August 7, 2021

Bread and Puppet Theater

I don’t know if we would have ever found Bread and Puppet Theater without a recommendation from our friend Ellen but it was well worth the additional drive to Glover, VT. Bread and Puppet has been putting on political theater since 1974 in this location. The performances feature …

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August 6, 2021

Hildene: Lincoln Family Summer Home

We visited the Hildene house, which was the private family house of the Abraham Lincoln’s only child that lived to adulthood, and became quiet wealthy.

*Hildene House from the front.* *Rear of the house from the formal gardens.* *Hildene House formal gardens.* *Hildene House dining room.*

Large Georgian Revival mansion with black shutters and multiple chimneys set on a sweeping green lawn framed by mature trees

Large Georgian Revival mansion with green shutters viewed from formal gardens with trimmed hedges and brick pathway

Brick path runs between neatly trimmed hedges and colorful flower borders toward a pergola, with mountains beyond.

Formal dining room with set oval table, upholstered chairs, fireplace, candles, floral centerpiece, and portrait painting above the mantel.

August 3, 2021

Painting on the side of a building in New Palz, New York.

Peace sign hand mural in red and teal with white stars painted on a brick building on Main Street in New Paltz New York

August 2, 2021

While we were visiting the Woodstock site today we took the restored Bindy Bazaar Trail through the trees. I loved Carol Hummel’s crocheted shapes wrapping by trees.

Colorful crocheted blue red and teal granny squares wrapped around tree trunks along a shaded forest trail.

Red and yellow crocheted floral mandala shapes wrapped around tree trunks in a sunlit deciduous forest.

Forest trail junction with a wooden sign on a tree pointing to Gentle Path, Groovy Way, and High Way, beside a tree wrapped in colorful crocheted yarn art.

Colorful crocheted blue orange and teal floral shapes wrapped around tree trunks in a green forest.

Forest trail junction tree wrapped in red and green crocheted yarn art, with signs pointing to Groovy Way, Gentle Path, and High Way.

August 2, 2021

The Magic Bus in the Woodstock & the 60’s exhibit at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Psychedelic-painted school bus with mushroom and flower motifs on display at the Woodstock museum exhibit

July 18, 2021

Graphic owl mural framed perfectly by window at A-Mill Artists Lofts.

Illuminated mural of a close-up owl face with vivid orange eyes and blue feathers filling a large window on a yellow brick building at night.

July 18, 2021

The Pillsbury A-Mill looks great at night.

Pillsbury A-Mill historic stone facade illuminated at night with warm uplighting highlighting its rough-cut limestone exterior and arched windows.

June 24, 2021

REM5 for Good: Simulacra Two

REM5 for Good ran a digital art event, Simulacra Two, and in addition to other options they offered NFTs of a number of items. I missed the real event but found out about it before it was all done and picked up four NFTs. They used Tezos for this and minted and sold the NFTs on …

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