Sorry for the delay, folks - some sad personal business kept me from giving my full attention to Beside the Point. I won't be coy: a good friend of mine, who, by the way, very much liked Stonington and visited the Borough often, finally lost her battle with cancer. So, again, my apologies for not having updated the sites for a while.
Better late than never: Four Starr Gallery, in the Velvet Mill, will have an opening for its new exhibition "Works on Paper" on Friday, 26 October, 2007, from 5 to 8 pm. This show will feature works on paper (one of my personal favorite types of work) by Sheila Barbone, Tod Johnstone, Yves Parent, Rieta Park, among others. Four Starr Gallery is located at 22 Bayview Avenue. For more info, call 860-535-1844.
Do you how to prepare johnnycakes? Do you even know what a johnnycake is? Well, if you answered no to either of those questions, now's your chance to fill in those gaps, by attending a "Breakfast Party" on Saturday, 3 November 2007, at 10 am, at the Captain Nathanael Palmer House, 40 Palmer Street, Stonington. This "breakfast party" is being held in honor of the new, and quite attractive, hard-cover edition of The Davis Homestead, a memoir of fifty years on a farm in Lower Pawcatuck, written by John Lawrence Davis and edited by Borough resident Emily Lynch, and now reissued by the Stonington Historical Society. Health permitting, John Whitman Davis, whom we all know from the Stonington Farmers Market and who is the son of the author, will demonstrate, with his wife Velora, "johnnycake cuisine", using cornmeal from the farm itself. Sounds terribly macrobiotic, doesn't it? Wonder if Alice Waters will hear of it? Anyway, anyone interested in learning more about johnnycakes and buying a copy of the new Davis Homestead book, please let the Stonington Historical Society Executive Director Mary Beth Baker know, on 860-535-8445.
