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How to Exhibit in the Library

Main Library Exhibit Areas

First floor:

  • Foundation Case — located in the west entrance foyer near School St.
  • Lobby Case — in the main lobby across from the Circulation Desk.
  • Emery Case — in the main lobby across from the new fiction books.
  • Brookline 300th Display Case — in the Reference Room

Children's Room:

  • at the entrance
  • across from the Circulation Desk
  • all around the room.

The Gallery in Hunneman Hall — located on the second floor

The Gallery in Hunneman Hall is open up to 30 minutes before closing as long as the hall is not is use. For scheduled programs and events, click on Calendar in the upper right-hand corner of our web page at brooklinelibrary.org. If the track lights are off when you arrive, the (labelled) switches are just inside the door to your right.

Venice in Winter & The Bristlecone Pines of California

Jan 21, 2012-Feb 26, 2012
Main Library

"Venice in Winter & The Bristlecone Pines of California" Photographs by Merrill Shea
Main Library, Second Floor: The Gallery in Hunneman Hall
Jan. 21-Feb. 26, 2012

That Disneyland phantasm which is Venice, with its romantic associations, glorious art and magnificent architecture, draws travelers like few other destinations. Most visit in the warmer months, perhaps to indulge their fantasies of living within a gold-tinted, life-sized Canaletto painting.

Yet Venice in winter offers its own delights. It is a time when Venetians reclaim their city from the tourist hordes. It is foggy, rainy, and enchanting—a more contemplative place. On my last trip there, I spent most of my time in back alleyways, exploring the intersection between the ancient and the modern. Even on the popular islands of Murano and Burano, there are places to explore where people live their lives in relative normalcy. Then again, can people live "normal" lives in such surroundings?

While Venice is old, it pales in comparison to the bristlecone pines, which are considered to be the oldest living organisms on earth. Located in the mountains of eastern California, many of them are in excess of four thousand years old. The harsh, windswept environment in which they grow—extremely slowly!—has sculpted them into marvelously contorted shapes, a photographer’s delight! A tree may have only a few living branches; the rest having died thousands of years ago. Yet the dead hulk remains intact, a testament to resiliency.

For more information, go to: http://www.merrillsheaphotography.com

Please feel free to contact Merrill by phone (617) 277-7351, cell phone (617) 470-8648, or by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).