February 21, 2014
Do you follow the CAA Twitter account, either by following it through your own Twitter account or keeping up with it online?
If so, be sure to watch for “Did you know?” tidbits, as I’m live-Tweeting from the symposium lectures. You can also find them all under [hashtag]CarriageSymposium.
Enjoy!
February 20, 2014
First thing this morning (well, after a leisurely, social breakfast), Richard Nicoll formally welcomed the symposium participants to the event and to Colonial Williamsburg.
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Then, in today’s first full round of lectures, we heard talks on the carriage-building industry in Warsaw, Poland, over several centuries; the life and times of painter C. Cooper Henderson; commercial freighting lines in the Old West; carriage appointments and what they can tell us about the vehicle and its occupants; and carriage lamps.
As usual at these events, we’re off to a very good start in the food department as well. Here’s just one plate that was on offer during the afternoon break … not to be confused with the morning break, or the midday break.
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Finally, here are a couple of photos of an adorable little model train that a CAA member brought to share with fellow symposium participants. The “cars” are carriages, and the entire train is only a couple of inches tall.
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February 20, 2014
Yesterday was a long one: up super early for a 7:00 a.m. flight to Virginia, finally arriving in the early afternoon. Then an afternoon of registering symposium participants, and then taking photos of the beautiful food at the evening welcome reception.
Due to a couple of technical issues I won’t bore you with, I can’t process those photos here, so I can’t share them with you yet. But all issues have now been resolved, so I should be able to post some photos, later this evening, from today’s events.
Stay tuned!
February 18, 2014
Please forgive this super-quick post today. The March issue of The Carriage Journal is finished (yaaaay) and at the printer. And now I need to go run some errands (and pack) before leaving insanely early tomorrow for our fourth CAA/CWF International Carriage Symposium. Look for symposium updates here and on Twitter starting tomorrow evening.
And my other good reason for leaving a bit early? The fire-alarm folks are testing our alarms at the moment. Eeek!
October 15, 2013
This past weekend, a group of more than fifty CAA members gathered in Long Island, New York, for a special tour.
On Friday afternoon, the group enjoyed a special and behind-the-scenes tour of the spectacular new carriage galleries at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages.
Here, the entrance to one of the impressive new galleries …
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Curator Joshua Ruff showed the group some of the details on the Tally Ho coach …
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Then, during an all-day outing on Saturday, the group visited the “Castle Gould” Carriage House and Stables, the Nassau County carriage collection, the Huntington Historical Society’s barn, the historic Old Field Farm showgrounds, and the historic Octagon Barn (shown below) at the Knox School.
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To learn more about membership in the Carriage Association of America, including wonderful travel, tour, and learning opportunities like this one, see the CAA’s website.
The Slower Road 