• Where: "American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell" at the Akron Art Museum, East Market and South High streets, Downtown (1-330-376-9185 or AkronArtMuseum.org).

• How far: 110 miles.

• How much: $10; seniors/students, $8; 12 and under, free.

• What to do: 41 paintings and 320 Saturday Evening Post covers from the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., through Feb. 3. Other attractions: the National Inventors Hall of Fame; Quaker Square, a shopping, restaurant, hotel and entertainment complex housed in the original 19th-century mills and silos of the Quaker Oats Co.; and the Goodyear World of Rubber Museum.

• Fun factor: 8 for Rockwell fans.

-- Mary Thomas