20 years?!?
20 years ago . . . Memorial Day Weekend, 1999 Very strange to realize it was exactly 20 years ago . . . I flew to Washington D.C. to see the J.S. Sargent retrospective (it wasn't visiting the west coast) It was an eventful and emotional weekend . . . life-changing in some respects . . . my first time (and only to this date) in that city, at the Arlington Memorial, the Vietnam Wall, and at the National Gallery and all over the Mall across multiple days . . . in addition to the museums and the Sargent show, I tried to take in as many of the Memorial Day events as I could. Saw Clinton give a speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, visited the Jefferson Memorial at night, and a patriotic Memorial Day concert behind the Capitol. I think I saw the Sargent show 3 or 4 times over the course of that week . . . I'd go early in the morning to be nearly first in line. (The only way to see shows like this.) The Daughters of Edward D. Boit was startling . . . a phenomenal pain...
