Thursday, May 28, 1987
Left before 18:00 to pick up Kyle and Erich to drive to
Boston for their first Red Sox and MLB game. We found a $6 parking spot only a couple blocks form Fenway Park.
Found our seats by 19:15 for the 19:35 game of the Boston Red Sox vs the
Cleveland Indians. I kept score on the scorecard, and we saw several home runs
by the wrong team. We were able to fill out All Star ballots. The boys had ice
cream bars after snacking on juices and fruit wrinkles. It was hot and muggy,
made bearable by a slight breeze. We left in the middle of the fifth inning at
about 21:30, with the Sox behind 4-7. Apparently they did well the rest of the
game, because they won 12-8!
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| Red Sox ticket |
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| Also went to a Paw Sox game |
Saturday, June 27, 1987
It was a rainy day, so we took Kyle and Erich to the Rhode
Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art. We parked on Main Street and took
the stairs up the alleyway to the main entrance on Benefit Street. Paid the
donation of $1 per adult and 25 cents per child.
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| RISD guide |
The lobby displayed a few
items: pieces of sculpture and gold jewelry from the Roman era. I had thought
this was a gallery of student art, but this was a “real” art museum, and more
extensive than I imagined. We came in on the fourth level and headed to the
Pendleton House with Newport-type furniture and an old card game table. We took
the stairs to the third level to the Porcelain Gallery. The special exhibit was
SchoolArt, art by students from nearly all the Rhode Island schools, grades
K-12. A middle room had doll and children’s furniture, and the other special
exhibits were photographic. One artist did colored tones on photographs, in
burnt orange and silver. The other artist painted certain areas of his photos.
Down more stairs to see a totem pole. We followed a narrow
corridor of contemporary paintings, passing offices, to galleries of modern art
and sculptures, and ceramics. We were impressed by the Exclamation Point
“sculpture” and a large wooden chair/desk. We went down to the children’s room,
then returned to the fourth floor. Saw an early Picasso, as we went from
Neo-classical/French to immature Baroque and religious Renaissance to ancient
medieval. Good representation of artists. Finally through Impressionism.
Upstairs to see samurai armor, and a Japanese noble’s taxi. There was the
Egyptian Room had a mummy, the Ethnographic Gallery, and a Buddha. A room of
Japanese prints, most by Utagawa Hiroshige who did the 36 Views of Mount Fuji,
of which five were here. Some examples of Indian and Chinese art, and then we
were done. It was pouring rain, so Kent ran to get the car to pick us up.
We went to 17:00 Mass, had a quick dinner, then
headed to the Warwick campus of the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) to
see the USBL All Stars play the RI Gulls. We thought we had arrived early for
the 19:30 game, but there was a long line for tickets. We paid $5 per adult and
$3 per kid, and walked into a packed gym! |
| USBL All Stars ticket |
