Bye Bye Baby

Rest in peace, Baby. We were so sad to see you go on 10/29/15. Julius misses his little Baby, but you're in a better, restful, peaceful place.

Iron and Coal, Petroleum and Steel

Now through October 25, 2015, there's a fabulous art exhibit titled Iron and Coal, Petroleum and Steel: Industrial Art From the Steidle Collection at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA. The image above is from Rockwell Kent's Power...for the Wheels of Progress.

  ~ Rockwell Kent's Power...for the Wheels of Progress - 1945 ~

 ~ A closeup of the passenger ~

The painting above was one of my favorites in the collection. It shows trains dumping slag. To learn more about this process, you can watch a neat video about trains dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994 at this link.

~ Steel by Edmund Marion Ashe (painted before 1942) ~

From the permanent collection is this magnificent Portrait of George Washington by artist Rembrandt Peale. With a name like Rembrandt, it has to be good.

Steampunk

If there's one word that comes to mind for the building and contents of the Henry Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA, it's steampunk. Mom, if you're reading this, steampunk is a genre of science fiction that features old machinery rather than advanced technology.

This building, which was designed by Mr. Mercer, is made out of concrete. Who would have guessed? Again, the guy had a thing for concrete.

It's a hoarder's heaven of tools, old gadgets, machinery, you name it. 

 The staircases throughout the museum were phenomenal.Very grandiose in a concrete kind of way.

The contents in this part of the museum were gracefully arranged, albeit very cluttered. Items hang from the ceiling and railings. If Salvador Dali were alive, he'd love the chaos of this place.

~ An old stagecoach ~

~ An old whaleboat ~

~ Cigar store Indian ~

 ~ Julius ~

~ Apothecary bottles ~

~ Mr. Mercer ~ 

~ Mr. Mercer and his beloved dog, Rollo ~

~ A statue of Rollo in the Mercer Museum ~

~ A view of the outside of the Mercer Museum ~