Journal of a Sabbatical

coastal aesthetics

August 4, 1997

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After my plover warden shift I grabbed lunch at Island Steamers and headed south on I-95 for Coastal Aesthetics Summer School at The Hotel Viking in Newport. Seems like I was just in Newport. Oh yeah, I was. For the Black Ships Festival. Boy, you'd never know I hate Newport because it's too crowded and too touristy. Seems like I'm there all the time.   I missed Paul Watkins talk about Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, which I just finished reading on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I would have liked to hear what it was really like to go from Yale to a scallop dragger. I had hoped to get there in time to hear a woman from Georgia (the former Soviet republic not the US state) talk about painting. I got there about 20 minutes after her talk was supposed to start. She wasn't there. I listened to the end of Sargun Tont's talk: The Lure of the Sea and Howard Melzer's on coastal themes in Wagner. Cynthia Grund's concert of Nordic piano music was surprisingly rich for me. I sat there picturing sailors climbing around in the rigging of a tall ship, all the while surrounded by extremely tacky murals of Vikings. This is the Hotel Viking after all.

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