Holidays 2024, Part I

Dear Husband and I started the 2024 holidays with a road trip to visit his family outside Cincinnati for Thanksgiving. Somehow I didn't manage to take any photos, but we had a good time eating, playing card games, and walking in the flurries. While he drove, I got a lot of work done on my laptop rewriting a book chapter.

On our way back to Pittsburgh, we stopped for a micro-visit to Zanesville, OH. Anchor of the trip was Tom's Ice Cream Bowl, reportedly one of the best ice cream parlors in the country, for a dish of two of their holiday flavors. Then it was across town to the Zanesville Museum of Art, which is free to visit.

This large vase is called "Red Boa," by Hungarian-born Steven Kemenyffy.

The building is an interesting shape, as you can see from the photos, with contemporary sculpture in these windowed galleries. One section is dedicated to Ohio artists.

That's "Peg--the ideal waitress" (1994) by William Saling. She's made of wood. But the real reason I wanted to bring DH was to see the Tom Everhart exhibit. He's the only person Charles Schultz gave permission to use Peanuts characters in pop art.

The museum also has world art displays and a room of Renaissance European pieces.

We also enjoyed the juried watercolor show.

The area is famous for its glass:

Last two pictures from the final gallery:

We drove on to Charlston, WV, where we stopped at Figgaretti's for "the best Italian food in West Virginia" before finally arriving home. It was a good day.