A museum I simply must visit
Aug. 14th, 2006 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieOne of my fellow KotOotGTPRs just sent me a link to this article about the Edward Gorey House museum. An exerpt from the article in question:
Two little legs, one slightly askew with a sneaker lace undone, poke out from underneath the blue living room rug.
Sitting on a shelf, a little girl peers out from the ice block in which she's encased.
Another little boy is the target of a ravenous group of mice.
The 26 doomed children at the Edward Gorey House are characters from ''The Gashlycrumb Tinies,'' written and illustrated by Gorey.
His story begins ''A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,'' and continues through a series of fatal scenarios - ''W is for Winnie, embedded in ice, X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.''
Dolls posed as the children are scattered around the house, the illustrator's home from 1986 until 2000, when he died at age 75 of a heart attack. The Highland Street Foundation, an organization that funds nonprofits, bought the house for just over $400,000 and reopened it as a museum showcasing all things Gorey.
I love Edward Gorey's work! Should I ever find myself in MA, I know somewhere I'm going to have to visit...
Two little legs, one slightly askew with a sneaker lace undone, poke out from underneath the blue living room rug.
Sitting on a shelf, a little girl peers out from the ice block in which she's encased.
Another little boy is the target of a ravenous group of mice.
The 26 doomed children at the Edward Gorey House are characters from ''The Gashlycrumb Tinies,'' written and illustrated by Gorey.
His story begins ''A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,'' and continues through a series of fatal scenarios - ''W is for Winnie, embedded in ice, X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.''
Dolls posed as the children are scattered around the house, the illustrator's home from 1986 until 2000, when he died at age 75 of a heart attack. The Highland Street Foundation, an organization that funds nonprofits, bought the house for just over $400,000 and reopened it as a museum showcasing all things Gorey.
I love Edward Gorey's work! Should I ever find myself in MA, I know somewhere I'm going to have to visit...
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