| A Daytime Activity Visit to the Fruitlands Museum Joe Wheelwright’s Tree Figures Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Meet at the National Heritage Museum at 10:15 AM We will carpool to the museum in Harvard, Ma (approx. 30 min. ride) The trees have eyes Sculptor Joe Wheelwright, a Bostonian who works in Vermont, takes trees and inverts them, using branches to form legs and roots to make heads and hair in his amazingly graceful and life-like human figures. Eight of Wheelwrights’s Tree Figures are on display on the grounds of the Fruitlands Museum. Also, we will visit “Forests Interrupted,” which tracks historical attitudes toward nature, and we will check out the fine craftsmanship in the Shaker Gallery. Cost is $10, Seniors $8 and children $4 ages 5-17. Plan on lunch at the restaurant before we head home. Note: wear comfortable shoes to visit the tree figures. RSVP by September 8th to Trish or Brian or via the form on the Contacts page. . . . |
