Lancaster Snippets, Part 2

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We took a drive a few days ago to see the pretty fall colors, and two things struck me. The first was the variation in the spectrum of leaf color. I had expected to see reds, yellows, and maybe even oranges, but what I didn't expect was the healthy amount of greens mixed in. The fact that it didn't look completely one or two colors gave it an almost alien aspect that was gorgeous to look upon: I can see why my mom was going on and on about fall color. The other thing was how my first reaction was "This would be totally cool to put on film! Look at those colors! No-one's ever seen something like that before!" I then checked myself as I realized where I was from and the fact that, last I checked, New England was fairly well populated. I did take a small consolation that I had indeed not seen any such color on film before, and that there might be some novelty left in such things.

Yesterday we visited one of the Stinehours, a family the Keiths have known for years and years and who ran a press for years and years at which both my father and grandfather worked. It recently came to be that the Stinehour press had closed down, but we visited the eldest Stinehour boy (well, man, he and my dad have been good friends) at his own studio. Aside from having hundreds upon hundreds of books, wonderful art and neat printing machines, there was also a stylized cutout in his loft that read...

ΨΥΧΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ

...which he told me was the apocryphal inscription on the main entrance at the Library of Alexandria. There was also a neat poster which had a really cool saying about Printing Offices, and I should have taken a picture of it.

And today we drove over to Burlington, VT, stopping on the way (as usual) at Ben and Jerry's HQ. The one thing that tickled me was a shirt in the gift shop that had, printed in the slightly faded Abercrombie lettering, "Body by Ben and Jerry's." I almost got the shirt, but settled for a button instead, as such a statement straddled the line between humorously self-referential and woefully true.

Right now we're currently staying in a wonderful, two leveled suite just across the way from Lake Champlain, and considering staying another day (we're only booked for the night) to take in the sights.


Enough, More Later.
- James