Network Amherst: The Lehrer Report

By Phyllis Lehrer

Published on September 05, 2008

Garden report: The tomatoes are over in my garden. I usually have them until late September, but all the leaves turned brown and quit. They were great when they were picked. The eggplant, basil, celery and broccoli are still going, however.

The lisianthus has bloomed. The New England aster and the canna lily are in bud. The pansies came back and are in bloom. The zinnias, marigolds, straw flowers, statice and salvia have been very colorful. Now it's time to plant some mums and the daffodils for the town's 250th anniversary. Three are three varieties at the Hadley Garden Center that will bloom next May.

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I had the good fortune to have a private tour of the Sol Lewitt exhibit that is being installed on three floors at Mass MoCa. It opens Nov. 16 and is worth seeing. The colors and designs are incredible. Such imagination.

Besides Mass MoCa, I also saw the exhibits at the Clark Art Institute, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Williams College Art Museum, which has a Sol Lewitt in the stairwell, and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. I did go to some movies, made pesto and froze lots of tomatoes and peppers.

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September birthdays: Joseph Carrigan, Dorothy Friend, William Stekl, Georgia Westervelt, Marion Wadsworth, Klara Moricz, Ekaternia Dianina, David Cox, Wayne Gates, Bonnie Isman, Tony Caruso, Jin Jang, Jean Hawkins, Brian Blinn, Richard Johnson, Nina Scott, Richard East, Hoa Le, Gary Beaudry, Carol Sikora, Mark Leonas, Margaret Feldmann, Lei Xing, Thomas Lucas, Elana Davidson, Hisham Nakshbendi, Frank Sicilia,

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Save the dates: The annual Friends of the Jones Library used book sale will be held Oct. 18.

The Annual Amherst Education Foundation Trivia Bee is Oct. 30. If you want to sponsor a team, call Linda Rotti at 687-6808.

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Elisa Campbell, of Amherst, sent a card from Hyde Park, N.Y., Franklin Roosevelt's home, which is smaller than she expected.

Myra and David Ross, of Amherst, sent a card from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Their son, Daniel, who graduated from Vassar College, is starting law school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Barbara and Gordon Freed, of Amherst, sent a card from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, which is not the farthest card but a world away from Amherst, they said.

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David Holm, the son of Ingrid Holm, of Longmeadow Drive in Amherst, received an associate degree from Lyndon State College in Lyndon Center, Vt. He majored in digital and graphic arts and graphic design.

Laura Ononibaku, the daughter of Pat and Charles Ononibaku, of Tamarack Drive in Amherst, and Kyle Magner, the son of Teri and Jeffrey Magner, of Woodlot Road in Amherst, graduated from Boston College. Laura majored in accounting and finance. Kyle, who graduated cum laude, majored in marketing, management and leadership.