Day Dream Tripper Believer...in the Green Mountains

 

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Welcome to, Salutations from,  Obi Wan Can'obie Layke Park Google Blog,

the one blog in billions that dares to tell it like it is and we've got a lot of pix for you,

Dear Reader, let us get right to it and continue on our

journey to Western Mass and Southern Vermont, with a very special episode

about a very special subject concerning very special friends who write

very special Pomes,

Billy Barnum and...

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Poet's Holiday

with CAT

(& Friends)

Travelogue

May 20 - 25, 2021

Obi Wan Can'obi Layke Pahrk

Day 3, Saturday, May 22, 2021

Bennington, VT

part one

"Happy Birthday, CAT!"

Deafo, Blindo, and Gummo

Not exactly, The Marx Brothers,

brushing dentures in her mouth,

Gummo gurgles, "G'mornin'"

Blindo cleans his eyes,

and Deafo doesn't hear a thing

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Moonlight Diner brekkie,

morning constitutionals,

showers and whatnots,

walk in Spruce Gardens*,

constitutional again.

"CAKES of PAN an' a SIDE 'o' BACON!" "Scrambled, toast, and bacon!" "Fried, tators, toast!"

"OJ and Nectar of the Gods all around!"

One of two gateway lions, new sign,

"What was this place? Evidence of an estate...let's read this info board..."

"Once a thriving Retiree Mobile Home Park, now an open field,"

"in the floodplain of a river, the park survived a few, until...2011..."

"when a big flood took out most of the residences, and the Park created in 2016

"Signs of previous life, front garden poppies & tulips."

"Poppies!, Poppies will make her sleeeeep!"  CAT & Das Man on one of the old streets.

Imodium AD...liquid

dispels dyspepsia, off again.

Bennington Museum, Grandma Moses,

small outside expanding galleries,

Wasp parked center stage,

bygone motoring era, dobro cello,

Annette Funicello in yellow.

Pottery of highest quality shines.

Three Senior Citizen tix...fooled 'em,

donate $10 to museum, why not?

Two seniors in reality...hee-hee.

Obi & Das amid Art, CAT's presentation of Robert Frost's writing gear.

*: Spruces Park, 60 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267

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Self Taught

(no photographs allowed)

{so we present other exhibit highlights}

Grandmas Moses Art

primitive abstractism

and pointillism

Vermontyistic

Colonial, Civil War,

era scenes she knew

as simple farm wife,

spent majority of life,

when too old for chores

began painting in earnest,

gained international fame;

Senior Citizen

role model, wisely feisty,

paints what may've been;

prolific artist,

pieces hang in the White House,

one hundred and one

she was all done, gone the sun,

increased legacy value.

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Seeing Sites

(Seek Online & Ye Shall Find)

Historical point,

The Bennington Monument,

honoring battle;

neighborhood torn down

Monument Avenue built,

circle stone obelisk;

general statues,

closed for season of covid,

SPECTACULAR VIEWS!

'round corner from museum,

signalless gps, use Google;

Bennington VT Rail Trail

cruise upscale hillside

follow direction to church,

old burial ground...

realize directly

around, behind, Museum,

stones seen thru windows,

local notables fam' plots,

map, directory, signage...

"That's all Folks."

** to be continued **

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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you very much,

"What was my favorite art installation?  THIS ONE!  BWAH-HAH-HAH!!"

Your own, personal Master of the Farce,
Obi Wan Can'obie Layke Park

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Dionysus offering Brother Coyote a chalice of Green Mountain Coffee;

Coyote barks,"Why not!"

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since January 7, 2021

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