Shelburne Falls

Jamestowne Church

Yesterday, Linda and I drove over to Shelburne Falls, MA. We stumbled into that town last year on our way back from Boston, and promised ourselves that we would definitely go back.

The main feature in the town is a c1908 trolley bridge that has been converted into a flower garden. Its a wonderful way to recycle an abandoned old concrete structure, and is well worth a visit. But in addition, the town is full of interesting small shops that we enjoyed visiting.

One of the places we walked into was the Logan-Wallace Gallery. Robin Logan and Jim Wallace are large format photographers - Logan specializes in still life, while Wallace concentrates on landscape. Both print in color. Their work is mainly decorative, but still very nice.

I noticed a scene along the main street that I wanted to photograph, and as I was setting up, a woman stopped to chat. It turns out that she was Robin Logan and her attention was captured by the large camera. She recommended that we also visit the Hallmark Museum of Photography in nearby Turner's Falls.

We had lunch at Cafe Martin (very nice!), and after walking across the bridge a couple of times, we then wandered off to Turner's Falls to visit the Hallmark Museum of Photography. The work on display was very good, but the featured work (by Lynn Goldsmith) was portraits of rock stars - photographically interesting, but not something that I am culturally attracted to.

We started home, but when I noticed that the GPS was routing us through Brattleboro, I decided to stop at VCP to see the Ron Rosenstock show.

Overall, it was a very nice day, but it ended in a very different way. About 20 minutes before we got home, the sky turned very dark and the rain came. It rained heavily, off and on, until at least 3am, with severe lightning. Power was out a couple of times, and we lost broadband service. Fortunately, we had a Netflix movie that we could watch.

This picture is from our visit to Williamsburg back in April. The interior of the old church at Jamestowne.