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(erielack) Homer Hill photo display and open house

Greetings,
 
    For the month of June 2007, the Homer Hill  photography exhibition will 
be on display in the gallery at the Watchung Arts  Center, 18 Sterling Road, 
Watchung, NJ  07069; _http://www.watchungarts.org/_ 
(http://www.watchungarts.org/) .
 
    To kick off the month, all are invited to an open  house at the Arts 
Center on Sunday, June 3rd, noon - 4:00 p.m.  Admission  is free, and light snacks 
will be available.  Directions are on the website  above, or google the 
address.  Basically, it's a mile south of Exit 40 off  I-78 on the Watchung Circle 
between the firehoues and the library. 
 
    The Tri-State and Jersey Central chapters of the  National Railway 
Historical Society framed and matted for display several  original photographs 
printed by the late Homer Hill during his life. Homer began  taking railroad photos 
at the 1933 Chicago Railroad Fair. As a Bernardsville  resident most of is 
adult life, and a commercial offset printer by  trade, he documented the 
steam-to-diesel transition era in black and white  and in color through the Northeast 
and in Canada.  Passenger trains were  his favorites, and there wasn't a 
train anywhere he wouldn't ride.
 
    The subjects include steam on the Lackawanna,  Jersey Central and Erie 
railroads.  The Homer Hill Exhibition has been on  tour for two years, it last 
being on display at the Morris County Library during  October 2006.  This is 
quite a collection and worth the effort to see it  spread out in the fine 
gallery of the Watchung Arts Center. There is plenty of  parking behind the building.
 
Mike Del Vecchio
President
Tri-State Chapter NRHS
 
 



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