11. GOODBYE NEW YORK, HELLO NEW ENGLAND

December 25 2012

Today is the big day, we are on the road again. We pick up a rental car and drive, on the right side mind you, through Connecticut to Road Island.

Looking out of our bethel window it seems that we have planned well. The Christmas tradition is keeping New Yorkers at home. The roads look as clear as they ever might...

Goodbye New York, hello NEW ENGLAND

Here is our rental car... boring i know...

First stop, Yale university, New Haven, Connecticut... No particular reason. This random angular stone building simply appealed to me. It beckoned, "get out of the car and photograph me",,, so we stopped and i snapped off a few shots...

Love the angles

And the sculpture, why not a few more photos?

And more

Ok, a lot of shots. Turns out it's the Ezra Styles college. Never heard of it before, so now that i have looked it up on good old Wikipedia I am chuffed that I stumbeled upon this little architectural gem...

Ezra Stiles College is a residential college at Yale University, built in 1961 by Eero Saarinen. Architecturally, it is known for its lack of right angles. The college, considered by many architecture critics a masterpiece of American architecture, is built of rubble masonry with buildings and a tower in the style of pre-Gothic Tuscan towers such as still exist in the medieval Italian hill town of San Gimignano. The college consists almost entirely of single rooms, and in a modern attempt to capture the spirit of Gothic architecture, Saarinen eliminated all right angles from the living areas.

Architect Eero Saarinen is a bit of a hero in my book, he was the architectural judge who pulled Utzon's Sydney Opera house plans, that had been rejected by the other judges, out of the bin and promoted the design.

Would make a pretty nice bethel room, don't you think?

"Anyways" (as our American friends like to say) enough about that

Here is some typical local architecture

This is the small town of Essex

The Connecticut river

And this is Mystic

Yep, it's cold

And finally, we arrived in Newport Road Island. Couldn't resist stopping at the Kingdom Hall on the way...

And this,,, this is our warm bed. From memory, the house was built in 1830? Tomorrow we will introduce you to our equally warm hosts.

Love-you-bye

Lloydnalex

 

 

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