Month: July 2006

One of my favorite artists, Nall, is bringing an exhibit called “Violata Pax” to the Mobile Museum of Art to show between August 4 and September 24. There’s an article in the Mobile Register here, and Nall is quoted about the two other exhibits that will be shown:

“The Mobile show includes Alabama art, one of my dearest passions,” he says, “and ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ pencil drawings done in the research period of developing pencil paintings at a time when I was using 20-year-old eyes.

“My porcelain, silverware, posters, etchings, glassware and many more media will be exhibited, as well as a retrospective of works dating to the 1960s.

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I also read that William Christenberry (who, among other things, is famous for his pictures of Hale County, AL) is curating his own show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through July 8, 2007. An interview in the Washington Post here has an interview with him, where he mentions that he’s put quotes from William Faulkner and Eudora Welty with his work because they and other Southern writers influenced him. He’s also putting together an exhibit of outsider art there. Nice!

On our way back home, Av and I stayed at the Golden Moon Casino Hotel. This was our first time to stay there. It’s different:

This is the Silver Star hotel/casino, which is right across the street from the Golden Moon. Both properties are operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

The rooms at the Golden Moon are nicer than the Silver Star (we stayed there one night a few years ago for a convention). This was our room at the Golden Moon:

It was okay, but the room smelled at first like a huge container of powdery carpet deodorant. Either it dissipated when we opened the door or we got used to it – either way, we only stayed a few hours overnight inside the room, so we survived.

The next morning, we got up and shopped at Williams Brothers (which is one of those stores that’s been around forever – it’s 50% grocery store, 45% clothes and shoe store, and 5% tack and feed store!). It’s really neat to walk around. Next, we went for lunch at Peggy’s, which is right in downtown Philadelphia:

Peggy’s has been around since 1961, where Peggy and Don Webb started serving food out of their home’s kitchen – and the guests would eat in the dining room. They moved out recently, and there’s extra seating now in the living room! We love it. Av had fried chicken and some rice, and I had chicken and potato salad with butter beans:

At Peggy’s, you just walk into the house, up to the kitchen where the food is set, serve yourself and pour some tea, then they bring bread and dessert. There’s no check to pay – you just leave…I think it’s $7…in the basket. So nice!