Eero Saarinen

Recently there was an exhibit of the work and life of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), a Finnish born architect. He moved with his family to the United States in 1923 and followed in his father, Eliel Saarinen's footsteps. To see how the exhibit was set up at both of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale School of Architecture click here. He was quite the designer and was the first to design pedestal furniture and the plastic 'tulip' chairs in 1957.
Yale's campus hosts one of his designs, the David S. Ingalls Ice Hockey Rink completed between 1956-58. It's home to the YU ice hockey team and seats 2800 people. It's affectionately called 'the whale' because it resembles....a whale! You'll see why in the photos below.

He designed so many buildings and other interesting things. The TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York City and the CBS Building, also in New York are just a couple of places. But my
favorite is the US Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, America's Gateway Arch to the West. Or, as we St. Louisin's call it, the Arch. St. Louis is my beloved hometown. Below is a photo of a photo that I took a couple of years ago. Saarinen died before the arch was completed.

Here's an interesting bit of trivia...well sort of...for me at least. I was about 10 years old when the arch was completed and they came around to all of the grammar schools in St. Louis and asked to sign our name to something (can't remember after all these years). Anyway, my name and thousands of other people's names are embedded somewhere in the arch. Meet me in St. Louie, Louie!

Wisdom Speaks

I hope she's right. This is the current marquis of the First Methodist Church on the corner of Elm and College Streets in New Haven.

Weekend Reflection

Here is reflected one of the Yale University buildings in Seychelles dress shop window. For more reflections check out Jame's Weekend Reflection. You won't be disappointed.

Train Up a Child

Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train Up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Even the little boys at the Carnaval San Francisco Tetlanohcan we outfitted and dancing, or just wandering depending on the age. Below is Lorenzo, he was so cute and the back of his cape is very beautiful. I'm saving that photo for a very special day in December (if I can remember it then!!) In between the two adults, one black and white and the one in orange is a pre-teen. Also, in the back you can see little Lorenzo with his mama.

More Carnaval San Francisco Tetlanohcan

Here is one of the masks that the men were wearing as they were dancing. See yesterday's post about the history of the Carnaval.

These men and women were dancing together more like a troupe. Honestly, they wore me out just watching them. While we were there, about 30 minutes, they danced without stopping.

The fancied up ones loved to pose for the camera. I'll have one more entry tomorrow.

San Francisco Tetlanohcan

After coming out of the Commencement Concert at Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University yesterday my neighbor and I heard another sort of music. Naturally we RAN over and to our delight we saw the Carnaval de San Francisco Tetlanohcan happening on the New Haven Green. Dancers of all sorts! Dancers, called charros, were dancing the Los Charros. Tetlanohcan is a small village of 10,000 people and it's in the Mexican State of Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala is the smallest state in Mexico.

Below you'll see some of men dressed very beautifully with sequins, feathers and plumes. Masks too! They are celebrating Independence from the Spaniards during the 17th and 18th centuries.

By wearing the masks it is the commoners way to mock the wealthy fair-skinned landowners

More tomorrow!

Weekend Reflection

OK. So I know you're probably getting tired of seeing this little guy Milo, but he's so doggone cute! He was taking a snooze in the sunlight and I noticed his reflection in the window. For other weekend reflections see James meme.