2007-02-17 Ben Neiditz, Ben came over to speak with me about graduate school and being an artist. He was a student of mine at Vassar about 3 years ago.]]> Kay & Frank Murphy (Cathy's parents), Betty & Jack Keddy (Cathy's sister & brother-in-law), Ben & Katie Keddy (Jack & Betty's children, our nephew and niece) all took a trip to see us. They came for a long-awaited visit and arrived Thursday afternoon. We had dinner here Thursday evening— salmon soufflee, coq au vin, boiled potatoes, zucchini, and frozen caramel mouse for dessert. Jon and Joy came over to visit with everyone after dinner (see entry, Jon and Joy May 2, 1974). Kay and Frank slept in our bed, Cathy and I slept in the living room, Betty and Jack in the guest room, Ben with Kay and Frank, Katie in Cathy's work room. Friday morning, we all had breakfast together— fresh orange juice, bacon, fried eggs, banana bread (Cathy made it from Alison Beall's mother's recipe), tea and coffee. On Friday, Kay and Frank watched Katie. Cathy, and Betty and Jack went to Fourcade Droll and shopping. Ben and I went to the Museum of Natural History and the Empire State Building (the weather was bad). Friday night, we went to the Mandarin Inn for dinner and brought dessert home from Farraras (all in Manhattan). Neil (see entry, Neil May 3rd, 1994) came over when we got home to visit with Kay and Frank etc. The overnight visitors left Saturday morning at about 10:30 a.m. Kay brought me a beautiful Chinese medallion butter dish for a present. See next entry.]]> We dropped a few of pieces from my "100 Most Popular Colors" series off at Davis and Langdale Company, Inc so they could be sent to the people who bought them. Then we went to the Frick to see the Gabriel de Saint-Aubin exhibition. We got to Knoedler before Billy. We had arranged to meet him there. We then all went to see Catherine's newly framed drawing, "Split" . Following that, we went out to lunch nearby before heading to the Museum of Modern Art to see Martin Puryear's show (it was the second time for us) and to see the Seurat drawing show. The museum was very crowded. Me and Cathy dropped Billy off at the Edward Thorpe Gallery on the way to Lennon Weinberg to see Jill Moser's exhibition. We met Billy back at Edward Thorpe's. He was thinking about buying a Judth Linhares painting from Thorpe. The three of us went to Bottini's for a light dinner. On the way home, we took Billy to the theater. He had a new show opening that Monday, entitled "Make me a Song". Because Catherine had to be at Yale in New Haven, we couldn't go to the opening.]]> Ben, Katie and Dede came over to my studio to see an injured bird I had in a box]]> A Busch Family visit.]]> The birthday party was at 5 Bennet Avenue, Lexington, MA]]> Cathy and I went to Boston to be with Ben while he received his masters from Emerson College. See the next entry.]]> Cathy and I went to Boston to be with Ben while he received his masters from Emerson College. See the previous entry.]]> Ben arrived on the 14th of August and stayed at least through the 19th. He was helping us in various ways to get ready for our 50th wedding anniversary party on the 18th. Some evenings he went back to New Jersey to work for Uber, but usually he came back to sleep here except for one night]]> I can't remember which one. On the day of the party (the 18th) he spent about 4 hours vacuuming the Dutch barn. Some time on the other days was spent trying to get the remote control boats going as well as the remote controlled flying shark.]]> 1975-08-31 (roll date, image #8), Benjamin Keddy, 5 Bennett Avenue]]> 2008-01-04 Benjamin, Benjamin Busch with his Christmas present from Benjamin Keddy. (see last three entries)]]> 1992-05-29 Benjamin Busch, (roll date, image #4). Ben did some work for us.]]> 1991-12-17 (roll date, image #14)]]> 1991-10-26]]> 1991-08-01 (roll date)]]> 1991-06-21 (roll date)]]> 1991-06-21 (roll date)]]> 1991-06-17]]> 1991-04-10 (roll date)]]> 1991-02-15 (roll date)]]> 1990-12-16 (roll date, image #21)]]> 1990-08-06 (roll date)]]> 2004-05-30 (roll date, image #25)]]> 2006-08-23-26 Benjamin Busch, - Ben arrived for dinner on Wednesday evening. On Thursday he installed his exhition at Vassar, we had dinner here that night. On Friday he insalled his other exhibition, The Art in War, in Woodstock. In the evening he had dinner with us at Tom Nozkowski and Joyce Robin's house (see Groups, Dinner at Tom and Joyce's 8/25/06).]]> 2006-07-15 Benjamin Busch, , He came with us to Daniel Wolff's reading in Rhinebeck (see last entry)]]> 2007-05-12 - 13 Benjamin Busch, , Ben came over for a visit on his way from NYC to Boston. He is going to Boston to meet with Benjamin Keddy and the other two sound people who are working on the sound for Ben Busch's film, The Forest. Ben Keddy is writing the music. He got to our house in the afternoon of the 12th and left at about 5 the next morning. We went out to dinner and to the South Hills Mall to see Zodiac. he spent part of Sunday in Boston and then went to NYC to buy a new computer (his last one, and Tracy's were stolin out of their temporary aprtment in Big Rapids, MI. Nothing was backed up so this made the loss huge - this is a long story - probably never to be told in Visitors). He missed B & H (the store in NYC) by fifteen minutes. Then off to College Park Maryland to try and finish fixing up that house so it could be sold (another long story). The day sfter that he went to Baltimore for his last day of filming on the HBO series - The Wire - more related to that in a moment. After filming he headed upstate to Albany to take down an exhibition of his photgraphs and was to bring them to Colgate. On route we got a call from him as he was paaing Poughkeepsie on the Taconic. Whe he is done at Colgate he is going to Sherburne, Ny to see if everything is OK at his parent's house and to deal with his brother Nick. then he drives back up to Michigan to spend a few days with Tracy and Alexandra before leaving for Africa to start filming, Generation Kill, a new HBO erioes about the Iraq war. He will have to be in Africa for 17 weeks of the 27 week shooting schedule.]]> 2007-03-02 Benjamin Busch, . I wroke up and found Benjamin sleeping in the guest room. He had been installing an exhibition of his photgraphs in Albany and because of a severe snowstorm decided he should leave there. He got to our house about 2 or 3 in the morning when we were asleep. He is pictured doing his laundry.]]> 2008-11-28 - 29 Benjamin Busch, Friday and Saturday. He visited. On Saturday we met Jon and Joy Santlofer for dinner. (see groups, La Puerta Azul, November 28, 2008]]> 2008-11-01 Benjamin Busch, he came by on his way back.]]> 2009-11-04 Benjamin Busch, Wednesday. Benjamin Visited.]]> 2009-05-21 -22 Benjamin Busch, Thursday-Friday. Ben came over Thursday evening and stayed overnight. He had driven from Michigan to Maryland so that he could work on the house they (him and Tracy) own and rent out. Then he came to visit with us. On Thursday he headed to Shelburn, NY to work on th house the rent out there. Then he heads back to Michagan.]]> 2010-08-20-21 Benjamin Busch, Saturday-Sunday. He came for an overnight visit. See last and next entries.]]> 2013-10-25 ,Benjamin Busch. Catherine and I were on our way home from New Brunswick (Cathy as teaching at Rutger) and we got a phone call from Ben. He said he was in NYC and was coming up to see us. So we got home and some time later Ben arrived. He brought us some cheese and other goodies from Fairway. Ben wanted to see some of my Local Business installations. On Saturday we went to On Location and Gladmore Cleaners. They were the only two places open with my installations. We also went to Al's Garage and put up three of my photographs there for that installation. He the left to go to Sherburne, NY to do some work on their house there.]]> 2014-9-25, Thursday, Benjamin Busch stopped by between his speaking engagements in NYC and going home. he was in NY in connection with his new article in Harpers, Tomorrow Will be Worse Than Today He cam over toy Vassar and stopped in my Computer Animation class and then went back to our house to visit with Cathy (Catherine Murphy). He hadn't leff when I got home from school so I got to see him again before he went home.]]> We were at the American Academy of Arts and Letters last night (see last bunch of entries), and Catherine's (Murphy) phone kept ringing. She answered it once and none was there. It turned out to be Benjamin Busch. He was calling to see if this was a good night to come by on his way from New York City to Sherborn NY. After dinner at the Academy, when Cathy and I were driving home, he finally got through to us. So, we arranged for him to let himself in when he got here, and that we'd see him in the morning. He probably got to our house around 1 AM. In the morning, when I got up at 7, I tried not to wake him, but that didn't work. The three of us had breakfast and visited. A little after 10, Charlie (Smith) came to work and took Cathy directly to the doctor for her B12 shot. Charlie and Cathy got back around 12 and the four of us had lunch. When we were done with lunch, Simon (Tosky) came to work (see next 2 entries). After Ben saw what I was up to in the studio and what Cathy had done, he left to head north.]]> Ben came by on his way from somewhere to somewhere. See phone message for more details.]]>