Abi's Web
Sunday, June 22^nd • 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Free
1:15pm Car pool from the Becket Arts Center

Located just off Route 8 in Hinsdale, this is both a fantastic menagerie and a weaver's dream. Tom and Josie offer spinning, knitting, and weaving supplies and instruction in their craft shop. Their domestic scene includes llamas, alpacas, Navajo churro sheep, angora goats, miniature Shetland ponies, and a variety of birds (peacocks, pheasants, swans, geese, ducks, turkeys, etc.).

Contact: abisweb.net Tel: 413 655-0265

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Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry
Sunday, July 13^th

Quarry Tour 1-4pm/museum display and video directly following at Mullen House Suggested Donation to the Becket Land Trust: $5
Bring sketchbook and camera
Wear sturdy shoes
12:45pm Car pool from the Becket Arts Center

Co-sponsored by the Becket Land Trust. This outdoor granite quarry museum features beautiful natural vistas and equipment spanning the industrial revolution - from wood to steel and oxen to rail. On-site guided tour provided to Quarry View and Reconstructed Wooden Derrick with narrative signs highlighting artifacts along the way.

After the visit to the Quarry, an interpretive display, with Oral History videos, will be available at the Mullen House Education Center across the road from the BAC. Art work done or inspired by the Quarry at this visit, or at other times, will be considered for the Annual Quarry Art Exhibition at the MHEC in August. Contact Dorothy Napp Schindel, Museum Director, for exhibit information at: www.historicquarry@becketlandtrust.org.


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Keystone Arches
Sunday, August 3^rd • 1 pm - 5 pm

Fee: $8 (Donation to Keystone Arch Bridges)
12:45pm Car pool from the Becket Arts Center

In Chester we will visit the first keystone arch railroad bridges in America. Remember the painting Whistler's Mother? The artist's father, Major George Washington Whistler, surveyed the site, so steep it was said to be impossible, as ridiculous as a "railroad to the moon." But it was essential if we were to compete with the Erie Canal which opened in1823.The Czar of Russia was so impressed with the result that he commissioned Whistler to build the railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Our guided tour by David Pierce will be followed by a presentation at the railroad museum in Chester.


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