Huntington Library Trip

Last Thursday my AP English class took a trip to the Huntington Library

"A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington, an exceptional businessman who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate holdings in Southern California. Huntington was also a man of vision – with a special interest in books, art, and gardens. During his lifetime, he amassed the core of one of the finest research libraries in the world, established a splendid art collection, and created an array of botanical gardens with plants from a geographic range spanning the globe."

The place had many separate gardens, libraries which scholars all around the word study first edition books and written memoirs of famous authors, many galleries of US and Foreign art, and building were current artists can hold exhibits. Since English 3 focuses on US composition, and since we are also in AP US History, we only toured the US art gallery and then we were given a small hour to go wherever we wished.

 

The images above belong to my friend, :C I left my camera in the bus because purses weren't allowed.

I was interested in the anatomy section of the library, they had books about early developments of authors drawing and trying to figure out what the inside of the human body looked like.

 We played around in the camelia gardens :>, our supervisor was really anal , so you could find us being smart asses and taking silly photos to lighten up the mood. We also didn't go everywhere because the supervisor was so serious about getting back when needed :< alot of other groups told us they went everywhere!

*~*~*~I was having a dandy old time though u v u ~*~*~*

I think I've posted myself in this exact outfit before? I don't remember.

The blouse is H&M and the Peter-Pan collar is Handmade

All in all I wish we could have been there longer!!

My friends and I want to go back this summer, since the first Thursday of each month is free.

Bye bye!

-Rei