Named for a nearby spring, the museum has been designed by the architect Moshe Safdie as a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds.
Aptos, an Ohlone word, means "the meeting of two creeks".
Rocks, two creeks, forest and several deer herds dot this lush course.
There are a pool, two creeks, a stable and a riding arena.
The two creeks are on the mineral lease and flow into the McArthur river.
In this hamlet, set in an Ulster County valley, two creeks swelled violently, their waters temporarily swallowing parts of town and turning Main Street into a rushing river.
Meriwether Lewis poulticed Joseph Fields, who suffered a snakebite, and they named two creeks, one after the Fourth of July and the other, that evening, after Independence.
And with no one yet willing to buy into the path of another spill, home values along the two creeks have collapsed.
Phoenicia, which was founded in 1853, has been wrestling with environmental regulators over permits to dredge Stony Clove Stream, one of the two creeks that bracket the hamlet and have been overflowing with increasing regularity.
The next afternoon, we rode our horses 12 miles to the convergence of two creeks that are so seldom fished that the trout fall for a style of fly-fishing called shadow casting: you dangle a fly above the surface of the water, and a fish — or two or three — jump up out of the creek, jockeying for the fly.
