Museum Hours

In the wake of the success of Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip , we recently sat down in Williamsburg with the still little known Elizabethan divine (no, of course not that  one) at the start of his speaking tour of the Atlantic Coast which had been stimulated by seeing a potential new congregation.  Perkins had just arrived on The Gadfly after a journey of several months. The original plan had been to launch a new ship (prospectively called  The Mayflower) but the whole enterprise had become bogged down in disputes about sourcing the timber and the precise kind of knots to use on the rigging. He entirely understood the need for rigour on these issues but still harboured hopes that the new ship would eventually secure at least a degree of renown. It would certainly be more comfortable.  He looked paler than usual even for someone who generally exclusively inhabits the library and the seminar room and made some initial remarks suggesting a degree of envy towards ‘Greta’ who seem