QFS98 -- Guest
Program: QFS98 -- Guest
Program:
A guided tour of the
the home and gardens of
Emily
Dickinson, one of America's most remarkable and creative poets,
who
lived in Amherst. The Dickinson Homestead is a National Historic
Landmark
that illustrates her life and times. We will also visit the Pratt
Museum at Amherst College
for a guilded tour of the Hitchcock Ichnology
Collection, the largest
collection of dinosaur footprints in the world.
Lunch on your own at the
Lord Jeffrey Inn in Town. Finally there will be
a guided tour of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. [** June 12 **] (Travel
time by car or bus, 10
minutes each way. Walkable from the
conference site, 30 minutes each way. Estimated cost: $10 or less.) A guided tour of two
of the 14 houses of Historic
Old
Deerfield. This collection of 18th and 19th century houses is a
rural
New England museum is filled with some of the great decorative
art
treasures of early America. It is one of New England's most beautiful
and
unspoiled villages. Lunch at the Deerfield Inn in the center of the
village
will be included. Afterward we stop at Yankee Candle Company where
you can
see candles being made, shop in the Disneyesque "Bavarian
Village,"
a site very untypical of New England, or visit the excellent
Car Museum. [** June 9, 1998 **]
(Travel time by car or bus: 20 minutes each
way. Estimated cost: $35/person, including entry fees and lunch at the Inn.) A visit
to the Sterling and
Francine Clark Art
Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, home of
the painting, sculpture
and decorative art collections of the Clarks.
Included are many notable
French Impressionist works, including more than
thirty by Renoir, as well
as works by the American artists Remington,
Homer, Cassatt, and Sargent.
We will have lunch at the museum or a nearby
inn, followed by a visit to
the Hancock
Shaker
Village, one of several communities established in America by
the Shaker
religious society. Their simple life of pacificism, separation
from the
world, common property, and equality of men and women is
illustrated by
the beauty and functionality of their buildings,
furnishings, crafts, and
inventions. [** June 13, 1998 **] (Travel time by car or bus 1.5 hours
each way. Estimated cost: $35/person, lunch is a separate
modest cost at the Clark Art Institute dining room.) A
trip to the Norman Rockwell
Museum, in the Berkshire
Mountain region of Massachusetts, home of a
collection of the paintings
by an American artist known for his
"pictorial chronical of changing
times in America." Lunch will be on your own in
the charming old village
Stockbridge, followed
by an afternoon stop at the Berkshire
Outlet Village, a pleasant collection
of more than 60 outlet-quality stores
with bargain shopping. [** June 10, 1998 **] (Travel time
by car or bus 1.5 hours each
way. Estimated cost: $35/person including admission to the museum; lunch
on your own is an additional modest cost.)For all
participants and
guests on the free Thursday afternoon, June 11, a choice
between:
Return to the
main page.