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Mar. 10th, 2005 04:33 pmList five places you've been that you think the people on your friends list should see before they die. If you like, say why you think they're special.
1) Toledo, Spain. You know the Greco painting of thundercloud gathering over a city on a hill? That's exactly what Toledo looks like, even today. (Parenthetically, Monet's garden also looks just exactly like it does in his paintings (impressionist blobs of color); for that reason, I'm not including them on this list, although the flowers are lovely.)
2) Mohonk Mountain House, near New Paltz, NY. It's a rambling series of buildings, built in 1869, as a hotel. There's fun stuff like canoeing, hiking, rock-climbing... but the most important thing about Mohonk is the building: you can feel the comfortable protectiveness of the heavy, dark wood, the Victorian patterned carpets and wallpaper, the big rocking chairs on the porch, the nooks and cupboards in the tea parlor, the grand old staircases that have felt the tread of thousands of feet.
3) Exeter College chapel, Oxford University. The arts-and-crafts artists William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones met as students at Exeter college, and as they became famous in their own time, they graced the chapel of their alma mater with paintings, tapestries, and other textiles. The majestic gothic form of the chapel is the perfect setting for the Preraphaelites' work, and their motifs echo the red-and-yellow enamel tiles of the chapel's medieval floor.
4) The New Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames in London. I saw Henry V there as a groundling, in period Elizabethan costumes, with an all-male cast, double-cast as the first production might have been (the guy who played the Boy also played Katherine).
5) The Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, RI. This is where John Brown, Stephen Hopkins, and the other famous founders of Rhode Island settled; their houses are still there, but more importantly, they are surrounded by houses built in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Some streets in the neighborhood are just barely wide enough for a car, and you can imagine you're trying to drive a pair of horses into the carriage house. But I recommend walking, looking at the little signs on the houses that say when they were built and _by whom_, and speculating about how these people were related to each other and the circumstances that surrounded their building of a new home.
1) Toledo, Spain. You know the Greco painting of thundercloud gathering over a city on a hill? That's exactly what Toledo looks like, even today. (Parenthetically, Monet's garden also looks just exactly like it does in his paintings (impressionist blobs of color); for that reason, I'm not including them on this list, although the flowers are lovely.)
2) Mohonk Mountain House, near New Paltz, NY. It's a rambling series of buildings, built in 1869, as a hotel. There's fun stuff like canoeing, hiking, rock-climbing... but the most important thing about Mohonk is the building: you can feel the comfortable protectiveness of the heavy, dark wood, the Victorian patterned carpets and wallpaper, the big rocking chairs on the porch, the nooks and cupboards in the tea parlor, the grand old staircases that have felt the tread of thousands of feet.
3) Exeter College chapel, Oxford University. The arts-and-crafts artists William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones met as students at Exeter college, and as they became famous in their own time, they graced the chapel of their alma mater with paintings, tapestries, and other textiles. The majestic gothic form of the chapel is the perfect setting for the Preraphaelites' work, and their motifs echo the red-and-yellow enamel tiles of the chapel's medieval floor.
4) The New Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames in London. I saw Henry V there as a groundling, in period Elizabethan costumes, with an all-male cast, double-cast as the first production might have been (the guy who played the Boy also played Katherine).
5) The Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, RI. This is where John Brown, Stephen Hopkins, and the other famous founders of Rhode Island settled; their houses are still there, but more importantly, they are surrounded by houses built in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Some streets in the neighborhood are just barely wide enough for a car, and you can imagine you're trying to drive a pair of horses into the carriage house. But I recommend walking, looking at the little signs on the houses that say when they were built and _by whom_, and speculating about how these people were related to each other and the circumstances that surrounded their building of a new home.
