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Category: Weather and Time

The essays in this section approach weather through the lens of time, asking how weather shapes our conception of history and vice versa. From petrified wood to Romantic paintings, these objects demand that we think across both human and geological timescales to grapple with both weather and climate as durational phenomena.

Will Sillin’s Connecticut River Valley Diorama

  • Author By Sofia Zavatone-Zeth '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Diorama of a group of long necked bipedal dinosaurs at the shore of a lake, set in a corner of a museum gallery and artificially lit.

Sara Press’s Earth

  • Author By Manuel Rincon '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Book, Climate, Frost Library Archives, North America, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Large textbook next to a custom clamshell box, featuring a drawing of the Earth with its core exposed. The background is partially composed of red swirling lines that don’t cover the entire surface.

Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

  • Author By Donovan Pitts '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

Rookwood Pottery’s Earthenware Pitcher

  • Author By Elle Mader
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Small pitcher with a handle and glazed in orange and green ombre. Decorated with two painted hawthorne flowers.

Triassic Petrified Wood Specimen

  • Author By Natalie Fu '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Image of petrified wood taken from above highlighting the colorful cross-section.

Thomas Cole’s The Present

  • Author By Emma Curley '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
Ruins of a medieval castle are illuminated by sunset. A shepherd with his flock stands in the sun surveys the ruin

Thomas Cole’s The Past

  • Author By Carlin Chazen '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
A cheerful summers day viewed from the trees on high, looking down upon a castle yard where a crowd watches a joust

Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

  • Author By Nico Berger '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

Orra White Hitchcock’s Drawing of Vallies

  • Author By Jackson Carter '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Drawing, Frost Library Archives, North America, Rain, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Colored stripes undulate across a diagram and form peaks & valleys labeled subsidence, elevation, erosion, & gorge.

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