Education & Community Programs kicked up their heels and did the holidays right over at Bryant Lake Bowl with beer and bowling. Not to mention, some of the best brownies ever baked – a BLB specialty. A good mix of the skilled and the pathetic bowlers: there were timid approaches, a couple lofted balls, some cursing, a few serious and dedicated souls that would not be distracted by their goofier co-workers, and an amazing backwards-between-the-legs shot that ended in a strike. No joke.
Susan and Reggie start right in with the drinks!
Witt readies his “#1!” fingers as the ball heads down the lane.
Superhuman, top bowler of the night, Lara, bowls so fast the camera can’t catch it.
Let it never be said that ECP can’t properly down a beer or embarrass themselves at a bowling alley.
For the last six days a friend and I have been touring the east coast visiting museums. By far the most impressive day consisted of a trip to upstate New York’s Dia Beacon and Northeast Massachusetts’ Mass MOCA. Both of these institutions are set in monuments to the industrial age, industrial factories. Irony can be found in the fact that at one time an assembly line dedicated to the manufacturing of cardboard boxes now houses drawing grids by Sol LeWitt and recessed 20 feet deep steel cubes by Michael Heiser.
These unusual settings for such monumental works pose interesting questions. What impact do these newly formed institutions have on rural communities? Is the art being shown at these institutions relevant to the people of Beacon and North Adams? And who benefits from them – day-trippers from New York City and Boston or the dairy farmer on the outskirts of North Adams?
