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Re: (erielack) Homer Hill photo display and open house



 


Just a reminder that the Homer Hill open house at the Watchung Arts Center  
is today, noon to 4:00 p.m.  Everyone is welcome, and there is something  for 
everyone.  Also today there will be railroadiana displays. Homer's  widow Jean 
Hill is coming with additional displays, and their son David.
 
This promises to be a fun day, and well attended. Directions are  below.
 
Thanks                               ....Mike
 


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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