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PP decamps to Claremont

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For 50-something years, Peggy Phelps has been one of the most potent forces for good in Pasadena. Since moving here from the East with then-husband Mason, Peggy was instrumental in shoring up or creating the Pasadena Art Museum, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Armory Center for the Arts and the AIDS Service Center, whose board she chaired. She served on the Vestry at All Saints and on countless other committees and boards. For one small but swell thing -- those Walk with the Mayor Wednesday-morning celebrations in the Arroyo -- we also have Peggy to thank. She got an idea -- Pasadenans are too fat and too out of shape -- posed a question: what can we do about it? -- bounced it off a bunch of us, formed Up and Moving Pasadena in conjunction with Young & Healthy, figured out that the cheapest and best way to get fit is simply to walk and ... there you have it. Peggy recently moved to Claremont, where she is also a mover and shaker, deeply involved with Claremont Graduate University, and the Armory threw her a party, with this banner out front. She's still going to be Mini-ing west to her beloved Pasa a lot but still ... the city will miss this force of nature. Immensely.

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Comments

I find a number of art museums to be enjoyable, but do you believe that all art is inherently "good" ?

That seems to be the case when you label Peggy's tireless efforts on behalf of local art museums, "a force for good."

It might have been better if you had just merely said that Peggy has been "a force for art museums" rather than "a force for good" since art museums are not inherently "good."

For instance, while many people do enjoy art museums, could the money which was spent on the local museums have been better spent on feeding the homeless ?

A hungry homeless person cannot eat a painting or a sculpture for dinner.

I don't know how you and Peggy can divert money to support art, when there are hungry mouths in Pasadena.

That doesn't sound "good."

Everything that Peggy did also supported the economy, so Hungry Homeless Guy, understand Larry's use of the word "good" - it's difficult to think of the endless work Peggy did and not use the word "good." Clearly you are a thoughtful reader of blogs so surely you understand how art feeds the soul and how critical that is to civilization. A happy to know Peggy, Pasadena resident!

Is there such thing as an inherently bad museum? Why is every civic gesture measured against feeding the homeless? Why doesn't homeless guy sell his computer and use the money to feed his homeless friends?

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