New low fares for summer on Northeast
Regional SM
Have Savings, Will Travel
Northeast Regional’s new low fares have been
extended through the summer travel season. Save
up to 25% on Amtrak’s lowest fares for travel June 2-
Sept. 3. A 14-day advance purchase is required.
Other restrictions may apply. For more information
and to book your ticket, visit Amtrak.com.
music by popular deejays.
What better way to celebrate tennis in NYC!
Aug. 27. For more information, call AYS Sports
Marketing at 215-925-7875;
bnpparibastasteoftennis.com.
RHODE ISLAND
Oscar bound: New England’s largest film festival,
Providence’s Rhode Island
International Film Festival (RIIFF), is known for
innovative programming,
gala celebrations, premiere
screenings and VIP guests.
The festival draws hundreds
of independent filmmakers
from around the globe in
a weeklong extravaganza,
screening a record 200 films.
RIIFF is also one of only a
handful of festivals worldwide that is a qualifying
event for the Academy
Awards. Aug. 4-9. 401-861-
4445; RIFilmFest.org.
Campbell’s Hall of Fame
Tennis Championships:
Thirty-two of the top tennis
players in the world show
their stuff on the legendary
grass courts of the International Tennis Hall of
Fame in Newport. The first
American stop following
Wimbledon on the ATP
World Tour, the event offers
the opportunity to feel the
speed and power as players
compete for the Van Alen
Cup and $500,000 in prize
money at one of the world’s
treasured sporting venues.
July 6-12. 866-914-FAME
(3263); tennisfame.com.
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For the Rhode Island events, save 20 percent
he best available regular (full)
adult rail fare for coach travel to
Westerly, Kingston or Providence,
RI, on Northeast Regional trains.
Valid for sale through Dec. 13,
2009, for travel through Dec. 16,
2009. Restrictions and blackout
dates may apply. Request discount
code V174 by booking online at
Amtrak.com or calling 800-USA-
RAIL. See page 87 for blackout
dates and other restrictions.
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Illustrating Her World: Ellen B. T. Pyle: Ellen Bernard
Thompson Pyle (1876-1936)
was born in Germantown,
Pa. She studied art at the
Drexel Institute and was
one of the few female students invited to study
illustration at Howard
Pyle’s Chadds Ford summer
school. She married Pyle’s
brother Walter in 1904, and
the demands of raising a
family sidelined her career.
She did not begin to create
illustrations again until
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after Walter’s unexpected
death in 1919. In addition to
creating covers for Parents
Magazine, Woman’s Home
Companion and Everybody’s
Magazine, she also created
40 covers for the Saturday
Evening Post and was one of
its most beloved and prolific
illustrators. She receives
the first overview of her
career in this exhibition
of approximately 50 works.
Delaware Art Museum.
Aug. 1-Jan. 3, 2010. delart.org.
Abbacadabra: The Magic
of ABBA: The songs of the
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“Super Troupers” are the
backdrop for fireworks and
the illuminated fountains of
the Longwood Gardens—
the 1,050-acre horticulture
showplace created near
Kennett Square by industrialist Pierre S. du Pont. The
show kicks off by invoking
the disco era with Dancing
Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Take a Chance
on Me, then moves into the
present with a high-energy
rendition of The Visitors.
Aug. 8 and Sept. 19. Experience other special fireworks
extravaganzas May 24, July 4,
Sept. 6. longwoodgardens.org.
Faces of a New Nation:
American portraits of the
18th and early 19th centuries from The Metropolitan
Museum of Art. This showcase of some of the Met’s
premier American portraits
offers the opportunity to
view masterpiece portraits
of early Americans. Winterthur is the only venue
for this select group of
portraits, which represent
many of the young country’s
great artists, including John
Smibert, John Singleton
Copley, Gilbert Stuart and
Samuel F.B. Morse. The
exhibition was organized by
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, N. Y., and is sponsored by DuPont. July 25-
Jan. 24, 2010. winterthur.org.
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For the Delaware events, save 40 percent on the best
able rail fare for one compan-
ion traveling in coach with a paid
regular (full) adult rail fare ticket
on Amtrak travel to Wilmington,
DE. Valid for sale through Dec. 13,
2009, and for travel through Dec. 16,
2009. Request discount code V256
by booking online at Amtrak.com
or calling 800-USA-RAIL. See page
