Under the Gables

Monday, June 28, 2010

Can Small Towns in America Be Revived?

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Church in a New England Village by Childe Hassam, 1901. Childe Hassam (1859-1935)was a prolific painter and it seems painted nearly every pl...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Homes Are Now Shrinking in the U.S.A.

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Grandmother's Doorway by Abbot Fuller Graves, 1900. The size of new single-family homes completed last year dipped to an average 2,438 s...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Women in Retail

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Here is a painting by the American impressionist painter, Childe Hassam, titled La Bouquetiere and la Latiere . The scene is likely Paris; t...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Cutters

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Going and Coming by Norman Rockwell, the cover picture for the latest edition of The Cutters . The Cutters by Mrs. Bess Streeter Aldrich wa...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Imagine This: Preparing a Medieval Feast

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Whenever I think of feasting, I think of Norman Rockwell's painting, Freedom from Want, and Thanksgiving dinner in the USA. But the lar...
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Has Mending Ever Been So Elegant?

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Mending, Edmund Tarbell, 1910 Three years before the International Exposition of Modern Art—the famous “Armory Show”—in Chicago, which intro...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Books in the House Benefit Children, Study Shows

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Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, Mary Cassatt, 1895 A fascinating international study shows that children who grow up in homes that have home...
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