We traveled to Athens, Ohio primarily to see an exhibit of modern quilts, and I thought that I would lead with that post, but the venue seemed a better introduction.

Mark and I got to Philadelphia Wednesday night.  Once we were both out of bed - much later than Mark arose - we headed out to see a number of the city's murals.

We thought were going to South Carolina for a D-Day exhibit.

Yo-Yo Ma created the Silkroad ensemble in 1998 to promote collaboration among multi-cultural musicians.

I don't usually do pure politics here.

The City of Raleigh has a small, well-organized museum dedicated to its own history.

I am always amazed when I visit the Upcountry History Museum in Greenville, South Carolina.

Happy New Year to everyone!  We decided to get in one last road trip of 2023, a short drive to Salisbury, NC.

I had heard that the Virginia Quilt Museum has a current exhibit about quilting during the Civil War.

A friend tells me that she and her husband have a don't-talk-politics-with-friends rule.  If you have a similar rule and it extends to social issues, you'll want to jump to my third rave, about the book Nothing Much Happens.

In a residential suburb of Atlanta known as Buckhead, the Atlanta Historical Society has its museum, and on these grounds the Swan House is open for tours.

I have long been a huge fan of the annual Bouquets to Art exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.  This year we scheduled a visit to the Art in Bloom exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Since 1961, Piedmont Arts has been a part of Martinsville in Henry County, Virginia. 

The portion of our trip to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library that made me cry was the traveling exhibit dedicated to Nelson Mandela.

Greenville, South Carolina has several small but truly impressive museums. Down the line I want to see the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library, the Center for Creative Arts, and I'm sure Mark will be interested in the two or three military history museums.

Yesterday we made it back to the Upcountry History Museum and the Sigal Music Museum.  The are right beside the Children's Museum and the architecturally-striking main library.

Since we had been to the Upcountry History Museum before, we focused on the photos that student photographer Stephen Somerstein took of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that took place in 1965.