Miriam's Moments

The Last week of September 2025

My son Marc and family live in Daybreak/South Jordan near the lovely Oquirrh Mountain Temple, with a wide view of the valley

Cousins Cordelia de S. (and sisters ) Hannah and Evie de S.

Fun to watch my sons Peter and Marc play piano together

September 23, I flew from SLC to Boston via Denver to visit daughter Anne and her husband Neil

Anne is an executive with Takeda Pharmaceutical company located in the heart of Cambridge's biotech industry, next to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

While Anne was working Neil and I took an (American Revolutionary War) Freedom Trail tour with a wonderfully knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide, Maura (recent graduate of Boston College).

The Granary where 100's are buried (several layers deep!)

A brick commemoration of the Irish who fled the famine in the 1800's

The Old State House, 1713, the oldest surviving public building in Boston

Paul Revere's house and his monument

In the Harvard U. Natural History museum is an amazing detailed permanent collection of Glass flowers. Beautiful and anatomically correct. Botany students come to study here.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Institute building, Cambridge, and across the street is...

The historic home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cambridge, MA

After a wonderful dinner in Cambridge with Anne's good friends and colleagues Jane and Cassie, we left early the next morning to drive (3.5 hours) to Dorset, near Manchester in southern Vermont where Anne and Neil have a beautiful home.

Anne found an amazingly appropriate for our times painting of the Greek muse Clio who preserved the history and records of her time. Here, banned/burning books, deportation of immigrants, and basic discounting of science (the titles of all the books are significant)

his wonderful painting depicting our times. See the immigrants lea

The Dorset General Store is very old and charming

We drove to the Clark art museum in Williamstown, MA. It was wonderful but we just missed the exhibition of British women artists of 1875-1945, which was our goal. I loved the Homer, French, English. America classical and impressionist art.

American artist Elizabeth Nourse's The Kiss c.1906. As the youngest of 10 children, she often depicts siblings

Felix Valloton's (1865-1925)Wheat Field in Brittany, France

Odilon Redon's Woman with a Vase of Flowers

Sterling and Francine Clark who founded the Clark Institute of Art in 1955, regret not buying more Degas (and other) works

French sculptress Camille Claudel's Abandonment, 1905

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's View at Guernsey, 1883

Constant Troyon's Going to Market on a Misty Morning, 1851

Theodore Rousseau's Farm in the Landes

Jules Dalou's Wisdom supporting Liberty

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, born in the Netherlnds) 's Preparation for the Festivities

James Tissot's Chrysanthemums

I truly love Clare Leighton's wood engraving illustrations and pictures included in her anthology The Rural Life.

Behind the Clark are lovely grounds

Williams College has some wonderful colonial buildings

We enjoyed a wonderful farm and bought pumpkins from a delightful 82 year old man who was the 1971 national snowmobile champion, Keith Armstrong, inducted into the national hall of Fame in 2024!

We drove through spectacular countryside to the Southern Vermont Art Institute and enjoyed a practice session of the young musicians from the Kinhaven music programs and had dinner at the art institute

Dorset farmer's market

In the creek picking up beautiful smooth marble, granite, other stones

While Anne was working Neil and I visited the Merck farm and nature preserve. The Northern Appalachian Acadian Bio-region (82 million acres) includes all or portions of 5 northeastern states and 4 southeastern and Maritime provinces of Canada. It is the largest intact temperate mixed broadleaf forest remaining in the world. It includes ocean shorelines, mountain ranges, River valleys, wetlands and grasslands.