….. Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing,” he went on dreamingly: “messing-about-in-boats; messing--”
“Look ahead, Rat!” cried the Mole suddenly.
It was too late. The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.
“-about in boats - or with boats,” the Rat went on composedly, picking himself up with a pleasant laugh, “on or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not. Look here! If you’ve really nothing else on hand this morning, supposing we drop down the river together, and have a long day of it?”

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, chapter one, The River Bank

The Boat Show

July 12 - September 13, 2003
Opening;
Saturday, July 12
2-5pm

Kim Adams
Sara Angelucci
David Askevold
Dianne Bos
Gerald Ferguson
Andrew Hunter
June Leaf
Doug Lewis
Alex Livingston
Inés Lombardi
Doris McCarthy
Ted Rettig
Michael Snow
Monica Tap
Carroll Taylor-Lindoe
Carol Wainio
Lawrence Weiner
The Selkirk

Summer Hours; July 12 – August 2, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am. – 5pm.
Closed August 3 – August 18
August 19 – September 13, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am. – 5pm.