Work for the Mansion Art Show Is Underway, I see it as a celebration of he human spirit.

Thanks to your generous donations of supplies – brushes, paint, patterns, books, pencils, matted frames, paper and other materials, everyone at the mansion has what they need to make art for the Art Show, to be held in the Great Room of the Mansion at the end of the month. These five works are the first efforts by the residents to make their own art in their own way.

I’m excited about this, this is an affirmation of the creative spark, at any age, it is a powerful force within us, I think, and the residents are into it. I went by today to take a look and to bring them the very last thing they had asked for: a stamp pad. They are set now.

The Activity Room is crammed with the wonderful supplies you bought them and sent them, I can’t thank you enough they are immensely grateful. There are a lot of choices for the residents to make about their art.

This has engaged almost all of the residents, it is exciting to come in there and see everybody hunched over the table with their pencils and brushes, creating away, excited and engaged. You have done a lot of good. More later. If you wish to write to the residents of the Mansion, you can do so at this address: The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.