A little over a week ago I did a talk about and reading from The Tenor of His Times at the Seal Cove Auto
Museum on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.
I had the opportunity to reconnect with Roberto Rodriguez, former
executive director of the museum, now its chief curator, who had invited me to
speak, and meet the museum’s new executive director, Raney Bench.
You may recall that in September 2010 I did a talk at the
museum. That was before my book was published. (See posts from 9/15/10 and
9/29/10.)
Because it’s such a long drive to Mt. Desert (although worth
every hour! I love Maine!) I asked my friend, Heidi Hoskin to accompany me, and
we took a few extra days to make stops along the route—at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art in Brunswick, the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden near Boothbay, and the
Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. We
had a wonderful time on the whole trip, and were especially delighted with the welcoming
hospitality at the Seal Cove Auto Museum.
This is Heidi and me in front of the 1913 Peugeot “Skiff”
that was previously owned by my father.
