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Title: Steve Bathrick
Caption: Darren (Pulver) was already here and Steve came soon after. The idea was to move two stones we had delivered from Pleasant Vally Stone. They were for two steps for the Poustinia. The little one room cottage we sometimes use for guests. Roberta Crosley, Our first tenant, who was of Polish extraction called the little house a Poustinia, a name we liked. The name connotes a small cabin used as a religious retreat. Steve had a machine that should have made it quite easy to move the stones. The delivery man from Pleasant Vally left them as close as he could to the cottage. Steve's machine as not quite the machine I was expecting. The fluid in the hydraulic lift on the top part of the machine sprayed out and that section wouldn't work. After a couple more mishaps the stones were set in place. Darren had to shift the soil in order to get the stones level. Steve hadn't been over to do work here fro some time. His son Andrew and then his son Travis took over the mowing and Andrew plows our driveway. They used to come work with Steve here (see past entries under Bathrick) but by and by they grew up and wanted to take on the work as part of their working lives.
Date: October 16, 2021, Saturday

Title: Gabriel Wolfsburger
Caption: Gabriel came over to see Catherine's (Murphy) two newest finished paintings before they were shipped to NYC for her exhibition in November.
Date: October 14, 2021, Thursday

Title: At Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold's
Caption: Joyce Robins, Catherine Murphy and myself went to Bob & Sylvia's house for lunch. We hadn't seen them in over a year (the pandemic plus other issues). Catherine made a salad and dessert (a lemon cake) for Bob's birthday. We picked up dumplings at Palace Dumpling in Wappingers Falls.We met up with Joyce at Vassar and all drove down together. I had this special oddball candle thing for years which we used on the cake. We all liked it so I ordered three more online, one for Joyce for Rocket's birthday. We also looked at their new work.
Date: October 11, 2021, Monday

Title: Kelly Vinett
Caption: Kelly dropped off a drawing I had left at Pamela Salisbury gallery. This is a drawing that we didn't put in the exhibition and was in the closet. She also brought extra catalogs from the Vassar show. Yesterday we took down the exhibit at the Pamela Salibury Gallery. Kelly is an assistant to Pamela and studied with me at Vassar College.
Date: October 5, 2021, Wednesday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben came to work for us.
Date: September 24, 2021, Friday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben came to work for us. He spent part of the day working on a photograph for China 1987, installment 12.
Date: July 22, 2021 Thursday

Title: Benjamin Busch
Caption: He visited.
Date: June 7, 2021 Monday

Title: Ruperta Aquino
Caption: Rupurta came to work.
Date: May 25, 2021, Tuesday

Title: Friends and Acquaintances 2021
Date: September 24, 2021

Title: Visitors 2021
Date: September 24, 2021

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Josh and Chie came by to drop off a Xmas present for us. We gave them some Millionaire cookies and some lemon squares in a reusable roasting dish.
Date: December 23, 2017, Wednesday

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Chie and Josh came by to drop off a Christmas Present.
Date: December 23, 2020, Wednesday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben got to work about 10:10 am because he hit a bit of traffic. First, he did the trash, then made coffee. Catherine and Ben discussed various cakes Ben could make for Sarah's birthday. Afterwhich Bern went to work on my China Project. Today he is working on the image of the entrance to the pool hall turning itto night from day. I spemnt the day working on this website as welool as on China. I am iusolating the sky from the image of the palm trees and large rock in the front of the swan hotel. The trees make this a particular painstaking operation. After we all had lunch the three of us went up toi Cathy's studio to do a simple temporary set up for a possible new painting. Ben and I spent the rest of thye day working on the China project,
Date: November 2, 2020 Monday

Title: Chie Fueki, Josh Marsh
Caption: Josh and Chie came for a visit. Josh had to be at Vassar to teach by 11:45 am. Catherine (Murphy) made a cake for them, so we served it along with mint tea (mint from the garden). The brought a whole box of great looking pastries. We visited and looked at work in the studios. Chie was going to drop Josh at Vassar, go home to Beacon and then pick him up at 5:00 pm.
Date: October 20, 2020. Tuesday

Title: Tim Liefer, Dana Kilgore
Caption: Tim and Dana worked on the replica of our patio in Catherine's (Murphy) studio.
Date: October 15, 2020 Thursday

Title: Jean, Darren, Aliah Pulver
Caption: They worked in the garden. When we are far apart they don't wear masks.
Date: October 15, 2020. Thursday

Title: Tim Liefer
Caption: Tim came to modify the facsimile of our patio that he built in Catherine's (Murphy) studio. The facsimile is for a painting Catherine is going to start soon. He cut off 3 feet from the back end and with a lever pushed the structure back to the balustrade. He did this by himself and rather speedily. We thought he would need another person and that it would take longer.
Date: October 13, 2020. Tuesday

Title: Judy Linn
Caption: Judy Linn had some business at Vassar. She came to see Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) new paintings. Judy called and said she would bring lunch and we looked up the Thai Restaurant near Vassar Brother's Medical Center to tell her what we would like. She treated us to lunch.
Date: October 11, 2020 Tuesday

Title: Benjamin Keddy
Caption: Ben came to work for us. In addition to other things, he worked on my China 1987 project.
Date: June 9, 2020 Tuesday

Title: Hudson, NY
Caption: I had seen an ad online for inexpensive eyeglasses, Americas Best Contacts, and Eyeglasses. Catherine and I had gone to Hudson a few weeks before so I could order eyeglasses. Catherine, Joyce, and I went to Hudson so I could pick up my glasses. Joyce came to poke around Hudson with us. We went into Henry (pictured) and Catherine bought a small welded metal table. We got takeout food at Talbott & Arning and ate in the car.
Date: January 31, 2020. Friday

Title: Visitors 2020

Title: Friends and Acquaintances 2020
Date: October 20, 2020

Title: Williams Inn, Williamstown, MA
Caption: We had Christmas dinner with Arthur and Billie last night. (see last entry in Groups). We met for breakfast at the Williams Inn. After which we all went back to Arthur and Biiie's, hung around for a short time, packed up the rest of our stuff in the car and headed home. (see Judy Linn, Visitors, same date)
Date: December 25, 2019 Wednesday

Title: Patricia Fagen
Caption: Pattie Fagen is the curator who is handling a show of my drawings at the Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. She came over to look through the work so we could start working out what would be in the exhibition. The exhibition will be from about the middle of June into a week or two of September 2020. After the studio visit we, Pattie, Catherine (Murphy) and O had cookies and tea in the house.
Date: December 23, 2019 Monday

Title: Sharon Hennessy and her daughter and her daughter's partner (I will be getting the name soon)
Caption: Sharon who Catherine (Murphy) first met when they were both at Skowhegan. (At that time an art summer school for students between their junior and senior years in 1966.) We saw her once since then but still many many years ago. Sharon has emailed for the last three years to see if we could get together around this time of year. She lives in California but comes to this area at Christmas time to visit her daughter. We were supposed to go to Montreal for Christmas but Billy wasn't feeling well so we were home and able to visit with Sharon. We had enough snacks for everyone's dinner. It was nice to see her after all this time. And also to meet her daughter and her daughter's partner.
Date: December 22, 2019

Title: Brasserie 292, Poughkeepsie, NY
Caption: We arranged to meet Gabrielle and Micky for dinner, so we did.
Date: December 21, 2019 Saturday

Title: Judy Linn
Caption: Judy came here on Tuesday and the three of us, Catherine(Murphy), Judy and me drove up together to Williamstown to have Christmas at Billie Finn and Arthur Salvadore's house. (see William Finn and Arthur Salvadore December 24, & 25 in Groups). Today the three of us drove back to Poughkeepsie.
Date: December 24 and 25, 2019, Tuesday and Wednesday

Title: Kallie Lampel
Caption: Kallie brought the newer car to Al's because the low oil light was going on. He waited while they did an oil change. We then had lunch. After which, he did some chores and then went to Adam's Fairacre Farms to buy some things. We tried to deal with too much data on the computer. After which we went over to the heated studio and tried to make sense out of some of the photographs, partly to see if we could find the missing China photos. I couldn't take that for too much longer because the disorganization made me want to hit my head against the wall. So that's why now we are doing input on the computer.
Date: November 22, 2019 Friday

Title: Aaron Strang from Culligan
Caption: Aaron started delivering salt here more than a decade ago. A few years ago other people came and when I asked where Aaron was. I was told he wasn't well so stopped delivering and worked in the office. So, it was a surprise to see him at the door. He said he was feeling good and he looked fine.
Date: November 22, 2019 Friday

Title: Lois Dodd Dinner at Alumnae/i
Caption: Lois Dodd came to give a talk about her work at Vassar. After the talk, I had arranged a catered (Main Course) dinner in the dining room of Alumnae/i House. She gave a really good talk.
Date: November 22, 2019 Friday

Title: Simon Tosky
Caption: Simon came to work. He did some of his chores and then Simon and me and Catherine (Murphy) went up to Catherine's studio to fix the seat on one of her chairs. Then we went over to the dutch barn and organized the summer outdoor furniture. We had an early lunch before starting to work on the site. When Kallie got here at 1:00pm the three of us worked, are working, on the site so that Kallie could get a beginning idea of how it worked. First we're going back over to the dutch barn so Simon and Kallie could vacuum and straighten up the studio. When that is done Kallie and Simon are going to remove the air conditioner to the bedroom, put down some storm windows, and that should be all we have time for.
Date: November 2, 2019 Sunday

Title: Kallie Lampel
Caption: This is Kallie's 2nd time coming to the house, and the last visit was for us to meet him. As of right now the photograph from the last visit may be lost. Today, as we are writing this Kallie, is going to help with some things, but more importantly, he is going to start learning how to do various things on the computer including how to make entries onto the site. Simon (Tosky) is going to be leaving for a different job and suggested Kallie take his place.
Date: November 2, 2019 Sunday

Title: La Puerta Azul
Caption: Peter Charlap exhibited his death row project at the Millbrook Library. He showed paintings. He painted some of the men on death row, as well as show works done by the inmates. After the opening, a group of us went out to dinner.
Date: November 1, 2019 Friday

Title: Wedding, Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA
Date: October 27, 2019

Title: Tao, Gary, Jeffrey, Catherine - at the MOMA NYC
Caption: We went to an event thrown by the Archives of American Art at Essex House Hotel on Tuesday evening. It seems that the original image file of this photograph is now lost. There were many other images from before and after this event stored on the same memory card that may also be irretrievable. The mistake occurred while moving the photographs from the camera to the folder for October 25, 2019. I was an IDIOT. I still have two images from that batch because I sent them to people and was able to retrieve them from email. I am PISSED! The day after the Archives event, Catherine (Murphy) and I went to see some art. We got in touch with Jeffery to ask if he could meet up with us. The only opening on his day was at tea time. So we arranged to meet at the Modern. After we had settled down for coffee and tea, Gary walked up behind us. He was in the Modern as well. Then a current student of Gary's, Tao, spotted Gary. So we all had beverages and visited.
Date: October 22, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Reading Room #3, Photo Book Works, Mariam Aziza Stephan, Julia Johnson, Beacon, NY. 4 of 4
Caption: We have known Mariam since Catherine (Murphy) was a visiting artist at UNC-Greensboro and the Weatherspoon some years ago. Miriam worked on a collaborative project with the poet Julia Johnson, which resulted in a book published by Photo Book Works in Beacon. Exhibited at Reading Room #3, were 12 drawings from a series of 100 that Mariam produced. Julia (who we hadn't met before) wrote poems about associations she saw in the drawings. No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works is owned and run by Paulette and David Rich (I may have something incorrectly here. I'm going to ask Paulette and David to correct me, if necessary). To the left of Mariam, one can get a glimpse of some of her drawings. And on the wall behind Allan is a partly blocked painting by David Rich. See the previous three entries.
Date: October 12, 2019 Saturday

Title: Reading Room #3, Photo Book Works, Mariam Aziza Stephan, Julia Johnson, Beacon, NY. 3 of 4
Caption: We have known Mariam since Catherine (Murphy) was a visiting artist at UNC-Greensboro and the Weatherspoon some years ago. Miriam worked on a collaborative project with the poet Julia Johnson, which resulted in a book published by Photo Book Works in Beacon. Exhibited at Reading Room #3, were 12 drawings from a series of 100 that Mariam produced. Julia (who we hadn't met before) wrote poems about associations she saw in the drawings. No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works is owned and run by Paulette and David Rich (I may have something incorrectly here. I'm going to ask Paulette and David to correct me, if necessary). To the left of Mariam, one can get a glimpse of some of her drawings. And on the wall behind Allan is a partly blocked painting by David Rich. See the previous two entries and the following entry.
Date: October 12, 2019 Saturday

Title: Reading Room #3, Photo Book Works, Mariam Aziza Stephan, Julia Johnson, Beacon, NY. 2 of 4
Caption: We have known Mariam since Catherine (Murphy) was a visiting artist at UNC-Greensboro and the Weatherspoon some years ago. Miriam worked on a collaborative project with the poet Julia Johnson, which resulted in a book published by Photo Book Works in Beacon. Exhibited at Reading Room #3, were 12 drawings from a series of 100 that Mariam produced. Julia (who we hadn't met before) wrote poems about associations she saw in the drawings. No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works is owned and run by Paulette and David Rich (I may have something incorrectly here. I'm going to ask Paulette and David to correct me, if necessary). To the left of Mariam, one can get a glimpse of some of her drawings. And on the wall behind Allan is a partly blocked painting by David Rich. See the previous entry and the following two entries.
Date: October 12, 2019 Saturday

Title: Reading Room #3, Photo Book Works, Mariam Aziza Stephan, Julia Johnson, Beacon, NY. 1 of 4
Caption: We have known Mariam since Catherine (Murphy) was a visiting artist at UNC-Greensboro and the Weatherspoon some years ago. Miriam worked on a collaborative project with the poet Julia Johnson, which resulted in a book published by Photo Book Works in Beacon. Exhibited at Reading Room #3, were 12 drawings from a series of 100 that Mariam produced. Julia (who we hadn't met before) wrote poems about associations she saw in the drawings. No.3 Reading Room & Photo Book Works is owned and run by Paulette and David Rich (I may have something incorrectly here. I'm going to ask Paulette and David to correct me, if necessary). To the left of Mariam, one can get a glimpse of some of her drawings. And on the wall behind Allan is a partly blocked painting by David Rich. See the following three entries.
Date: October 12, 2019 Saturday

Title: Colin (wrong first name) Travis
Caption: Colin did the excavation of the trench for the waterline. He was recommended by John Slizewski (see last two entries).
Date: October 9, 2019, Wednesday

Title: Tracy Petty
Caption: Tracy met John here to assist with the waterline (see last entry).
Date: October 9, 2019, Wednesday

Title: John Slizewski, Sterling Pump
Caption: John had discovered the problem with our water. Today (not actually) he came over with Tracy Petty to meet up with the excavation man, Colin Travis to dig the trench and put in the water line between the house and the well. The excavating was tricky because of trees and garden. Colin is very good with the excavation machine, so it looks like we won't have any lasting damage. (see next two entries).
Date: October 9, 2019

Title: Mike DiGiacomo and Sons
Caption: Mike of Mike's Tree Service came to give us an estimate for taking down a large sickly Maple tree and to look at the cable on the tree against the dutch barn.
Date: October 8, 2019, Tuesday

Title: Keltie Ferris Visit to Vassar College
Caption: Keltie Ferris was invited to Vassar as a Claflin Fund speaker by the Art Department. Last night she gave a talk followed by dinner. This morning she did critiques with individual students. Karly Andreason was her final critique before lunch. Karly brought Kelsie to the retreat, where some of us met for lunch.
Date: October 8, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Dinner after Keltie Ferris' talk at Vassar College at La Cabanita, Poughkeepsie, NY
Caption: After Keltie Ferris' talk, we had dinner at La Cabanita. There were about 22 of us. Over the last couple of months, their food has been somewhat uneven. So Elvis and I have had a number of discussions about the food. He has been very patient with me. The food this night was spectacular.
Date: October 7, 2019 Tuesday

Title: Rena Fogal
Caption: Rena emailed to tell us they were heading south from their house upstate and would it be possible to stop by and say hi. We hadn't seen them for a while and were very glad to have them come for a visit.
Date: October 6, 2019 Sunday

Title: Anne Bogart
Caption: Rena (Fogal) emailed to tell us they were heading south from their house upstate and would it be possible to stop by and say hi. We hadn't seen them for a while and were very glad to have them come for a visit.
Date: October 6, 2019 Sunday

Title: David Cohen and Students
Caption: Catherine (Murphy) and I went down to the city so Catherine could get a haircut from Olivier and go to her galley, Peter Freeman. We also went around to see some shows. We, as we often do, drove around and took turns going in to see shows. At the David Hume exhibition, I ran into David Cohen, taking his students around to galleries. There might be more information added when I hear back from David.
Date: October 5, 2019 Saturday

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