Woodford State Park,
Vermont,
United States
Saturday, August 2, 1980
I crossed back over the Connecticut River and went to the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, then to the Maxfield Parrish Museum. There I saw the machine Maxfied used to project his subjects on to the canvas and he was said to use his brush to take paint directly out of the paint tubes-no palette. The photo of the covered bridge is over the Connecticut River to Windsor. Back over in Vermont I stop at the Springfield Shopping Center on route 11 and go to the grocery store and then to the Ames for a distributer cap and tuneup parts. Crossing Vermont on 11 I get to Manchester and go to the South Vermont Art Center. I stopped at an art gallery in Mancehster then followed 7a down to Bennington where I stopped at the Dunkin Donut. I picked up a young couple that were hiking. They had just come from some privately run music museum where the man who owned it advised them if they loved music to never get a job in the business. They asked me to take them to Woodford State Park and that since they were paying to get in and camp I could park there for free. And that is what I did. There was some concert event going on that night and somewhere I have a sketch of it. I took advantage of an actual shower there but didn't realize when I went in that you had to put money in for hot water. I figured I was use to cold water and there would be some hot water left over from the person before. This turned out to be true, but only for about a minute then I was treated to the coldest water I had encountered on the trip-most likely water pumped in from the north pole. It was rugged, next time I will give up a quarter. Did taichi before going to bed.
