Dover Daytrip

Dover, DE, March 28: We stopped first at an Amish supermarket, Bylers, and then at Spence's Bazaar:

Lunch at W. T. Smithers:

Then, on to the Biggs Museum. It's like a mini Winterthur with 18th and 19th century art and decorative arts from the Delaware Valley. There's a Gilbert Stuart, a Sully and most of the Peales!









The Calder model for the William Penn statue atop the Philadelphia City Hall tower; and the Frank E. Schoonover room:












This most unusual 1858 black and white painting by Alice Barber Stephens seems to anticipate black and white photography and film:

Spring 2009

Spring Antiques Show

March 7: Albert organized an outing to the DC Spring Antiques Show at the convention center. The show attracted dealers from up and down the eastern seaboard, from the west coast and a surprising number from the EU. But with great uncertainty as to the actual value of anything and not knowing what things would be worth next week, let alone next year, sales were slim.

We lunched on 9th Street in a restaurant that is actually in the convention center building:

Philly Cheese Steak

South Philadelphia, March 6:






















Neighborhood luminaries:Go here for the 2009 Philadelphia Flower Show: BELLA ITALIA.