It's probably a good omen when a car trip starts out with seeing a truck with your name on it.
Cowan truck. Vermont Rt. 89.
I took some time off last weekend with my parenting partner, Laurie Essig, and our two kids to visit our old house in Greenport, NY. We sold the house about five years ago and none of us had been back since then.
Naturally, we visited the carousel.
I hadn't remembered that there are several Charles Dare horses on the Greenport Carousel, which was a wonderful surprise for me.
Charles Dare horse, Greenport Carousel. Liza Cowan photo.
I got to spend a little time at the Greenport Shipyards, site of my Shipyard Archeology photo series. I only had my point and shoot camera with me, and I just can't get the same quality I got from my trusty Nikon F100 and a roll of film, but still it was nostalgic just walking around.
Siding and Rudder. Greenport Shipyard. 2008. Liza Cowan photo.
On our way home we stopped for a few hours in New York City so Laurie could tape a TV Show about Gay Marriage. (No, we're not. Families have all kinds of shapes and configurations.) The show was the Laura Flanders show on GRITtv, and although the kids wanted to go shopping during the taping, we did manage to catch the last few minutes and hang out in the control room to see the backstage operations. You can watch the segment here
Control Room - taping the Laura Flanders Show.
And then a quick hello to the panel and Laura.
Laura Flanders, left. Laurie and kids, right. Not in this picture is panelist Kenyon Farrow, whose excellent blog is worth taking a look at.
So if you watch the show and Laurie briefly mentions her kids and parenting partner, that's us. I'm in the Vermont media fairly often, usually about art, so it was fun to be on the sidelines and out of the spotlight.
The best part about travel, when you know things are going really right, is when you are happy to get home. We were all glad to cross Lake Champlain and be back in Vermont again.
Charlotte, VT and Lake Champlain from the Lake Champlain Essex/Charlotte Ferry.
