The Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco visited Dartmouth in 1932 to teach the art of fresco painting over a door in the basement reading room of the Baker Library. Forging friendships with Dartmouth's teachers and students, he changed his plans and stayed. Two years later, he finished one of the world's greatest pieces of Latin American art, The Epic of Civilization, a wild, potent visual rant on the history of the Americas. A radical political thinker (by Dartmouth standards, certainly,) Orozco relished the opportunity to confront the college's elite students and alumni by exposing modern decadence, conformity, militarism and modernism. The presence of my camera caused lots of confusion at the front desk, so you have to check it out yourself or go to www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Orozco/. Here we at Dartmouth Green:

If you give them about twenty bucks, Ben & Jerry's will make you a "monster," a bucket full of different ice creams covered with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. You get to keep the bucket, which--for the first few minutes--is a very good idea.

Brattleboro Bowl became an instant tradition last year on this project, and once again, talent was scarce. Appetites back, we cooked up an Italian dinner featuring home made focaccia, farfalle pasta and chicken baked in a simple tomato/onion/garlic/bacon/chourizo/capers and olives sauce.

Today we're off to Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (www.MassMOCA.org) in North Adams. I hope to have more images from different projects.