10:00am SNOW AND the classics
Cozy up next to the “fire”
11:30am SNOW AND lore
Meet in the front room
1:00pm SNOW AND “the city”
Spring Street
Meet at the benches
2:30pm SNOW AND adventure
Meet in front of the Rosenberg Center
(Van departs from WCMA at 2:15 pm)
Last fall, the international art collective Ghana ThinkTank teamed up with WCMA and Williams Students to ask members of our community: How Does Climate Change Affect You? Here’s what we heard, again and again: “The lack of beautiful snow is deeply affecting my psyche!” and.. “Cross-country skiing is an important part of growing up and becoming a part of this community, and we won’t have cross-country skiing in 40 years because we won’t have snow anymore.” The think tanks in Morocco and Indonesia responded with these suggestions: Use the extinction of snow as a reminder to bring back what is already extinct—storytelling, cultural performance, festivals, etc. Hold a marathon reading of literature about snow—Jack London, Walt Whitman, TS Eliot.
Dale Williams Nichols (American, 1904-1995), January, 1935. Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. Gift of Cole Porter. 47.1.4