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Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, Michigan June 25—29, 2026 Photo Ida Wessel BACKGROUND One of the five entities in the Cranbrook Educational Community, Cranbrook Academy of Art, began in the 1930s as “experiment in radical art education.”

Museo de Arte Costarricense La Sabana Metropolitan Park, San José Date of Visit: March 2026 This was not our first time in Costa Rica but it was the first exclusively dedicated to bird watching.

Norwegian Book Town in Fjærland Mundal, Norway Date of Visit: May, 2025 Imagine a peaceful country with beautiful mountains, deep sparkling fjords, lush valleys, and more waterfalls than you can count.

Hill Top, Beatrix Potter Farmstead Near Sawrey, Ambleside, United Kingdom September 2023 Beatrix Potter Drawn to Nature Morgan Library, New York June 2024 Rare Book Department Philadelphia Free Library May 2024 Watercolor and ink signed by Helen Beatrix P…

England: Part 1 : The Lady Levins Art Gallery Village, Lower Rd, Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral CH62 5EQ Date of Visit : October 2023 After completing several of Liverpool’s Beatles experiences my travel companion and I decided to visit separate destina…

Ancient Arts & Modern Day Craftsmen DeMerritt Bookbinding Studio 1420 45th Street, Unit 21 Berkley, California https://www.demerrittstudios.com In the book world there are presses that specialize in scholarly editions, exquisitely printed and bound, but p…

Locked down in our homes, let’s imagine a short journey…The year is 2012, you are in Budapest, riding the No.1 tram north along the western bank of the Danube River.

Galacia Center of Contemporary Art Santiago de Compestela, Spain Date of Visit: October, 2019 The Pilgrims Walkers embark on the famous Camino de Santiago for various personal objectives: perhaps a retreat from modern living, a vehicle for self-realization

Location: Penland School of Crafts Spruce Pine, North Carolina Date: Last week of August, 2019 In the last week of August, six souls came together at Penland School of Crafts to study wood type cutting under instructor Scott Moore and master printer Brad…

Sociologists have found that most people have grown skeptical of commercial and governmental news agencies yet still hold trust in the information that comes via one traditional source— the museum.