Several months ago, the president of the Timothy Demonbreun Heritage Society (TDHS) told our group about an opportunity at the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson. We could have an education booth at an event commemorating the 200th anniversary of the…
Our son John and his family visited the wonderful Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, last weekend. Ray and I had the privilege of visiting the Nelson in April of 2014 after we attended a homeschooling convention in…
Last week I showed you two of the 80 copper relief panels in the Grand Reading Room of the Nashville Public Library and mentioned the artist Gregory Ridley who created them. Gregory Ridley was an African American born in Smyrna,…
After a 1950s and 1960s childhood in which I experienced life in a Beaver Cleaver, Andy Griffith, Ozzie and Harriet sort of way, I graduated from high school in 1971. Between high school graduation and marrying Ray at the end…
In April of 2016, Ray and I spent a day at the Art Institute of Chicago. As an art lover, it was one of my favorite days ever. We both enjoyed it so much that we didn’t even stop for…
I learned a new vocabulary word yesterday: diptych. A diptych is an object with two matching or coordinated parts. In art a diptych consists of two painted or carved works of art connected by a hinge. People often used a…
