Truk Talk

Trukese artifacts

Gave a 'Truk Talk' or 'Chuuk Chat' this morning at the monthly Men's Coffee Social here at CVOC. The presentation was very well received with a full audience in the dining room. Many questions at the end of the talk. This was, of course, about my four years living in Truk in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in Micronesia, 1963 to 1967.

bloginfo: Truk was the name of the island district when I lived there. Now after joining the Federated States of Micronesia it is called its original name of Chuuk.

blognote: CVOC is Covenant Village of Cromwell where I have lived for the past three years.

'Poster Boy' Opening

Attended the Poster Boy opening tonight at RAW in Hartford. Trinity's loss is definitely Real Art Ways' gain. It was a great show and people were still streaming in when I left.

New Britain Museum of American Art

I will never be able to forget this painting and each time I view it, it continues to stun me. This is Graydon Parrish's 'The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy'. I had the privilege of viewing it once again yesterday on my visit to the NBMAA to view their 'Provincetown' show once more before it finishes this weekend.

room with a view...paris...2011

just across the blvd montparnasse
was my new favorite basque restaurant
oyez paxox

room with a view...belo horizonte, brasil...2008

looking out over the jami campus
from my apartment window in the morning

room with a view...havana, cuba...2010

from my window in the parque central hotel in old havana
you could see the intersection of prado and calle neptuno

room with a view...santiago de cuba...2011

ringing the melia santiago hotel
were the sierra maestra mountains

room with a view...trinidad de cuba...2009

waking up in the morning
in the trinidad iberostar hotel
with a view of the church in the plaza