Tonight’s PBS News Hour had this segment about the art of Paddington Bear.
In 2018, I was interested in seeing a Paddington illustration exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA. But between recovering from melanoma skin cancer and being the trustee of my late parents’ estate, I didn’t make it out there.
https://carlemuseum.org/explore-art/exhibitions/past-exhibition/paddington-comes-america
The museum is located at one end of the Hampshire College campus. Today came the shocking, yet not surprising, news that Hampshire College will be shutting down. That leaves UMass and Amherst College in Amherst, along with Mount Holyoke in South Hadley and Smith College in Northampton, with the latter two being schools for women.