Posted on 10/14/2009 4:37:17 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
Ain’t it the truth; well done!
Thank you! JMO, but the “average” American is America. WE have been so busy with our lives we forgot to keep an eye on our, for lack of a better word, icons. RR was the last of a breed ALLOWED to reach prominence in the minds of Americans. Our faux press, hollyweird, and Madison Avenue have contributed mightily to the destruction of our culture and way of life. I miss America too.
Thanks again!
Uhhh, make that, “copying ditty-dahs”; Morse code IOW...
I’m glad yours isn’t severe.
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That was a beautiful piece of work, FGS. So moving!
I hope you have the chance someday to go to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass, in the Berkshire Mtns, near the New York border. It’s a thrilling experience to see so many of his original paintings, and to visit his studio. There is a small gallery in the center of the museum, in which you are surrounded by the Four Freedoms paintings. I can’t describe the feeling. A large gallery on a lower level has all the Saturday Evening Post covers.
In your video, there was a wide painting of a smalltown Main Street. That is Stockbridge, and it is still lovely today.
I did a small amount of background on Rockwell just to get an idea of what he was about. Little doubt his connections were with the Heartland of America and his art bears that out. It feels a bit unsettling, eerie even, to look at some of his work and say, I know this place, or a place just like it; or I know these people, or people just like them. His settings and all were just so, I dunno, down home. He had a knack...
The museum must be quite a place. I can only imagine.
That was just beautiful. I enjoyed it very much. The REAL
America!
Thank you. To me, he had the ability to capture the essence of what the real America ONCE was; certainly the America I knew as a kid. I pray his work will stand as an enduring legacy of America’s greatness and not an epitaph.
You are the History buff and know where everything important is located.
Very nice. Didn’t see this until just now.
Thank you sir! I find myself frequently going off in other directions, etc, so I don’t take or make the time to promote stuff like this. I’m proud of the way it turned out and I am humbled and thankful for the flowers sent by those who have seen it. Thanks again.
IMO, kids are not taught to respect those who died for us.
That would imply that fighting to maintain a nation as vile as ours was worth defending, and that our brand of freedom is better than any other nation’s brand of freedom. Why don’t you know, Hanoi has a good a system as we do.
I don’t agree with that in any way shape or form, but that’s pretty much what is going on these days.
Very beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes.
Just so, and we both could probably go on at length about the reasons why it has come to that...
Is it a safe bet you’re no spring chicken??? Seeing Rockwell’s work in a presentation such as this may have a greater impact on those who grew up in the era he so eloquently depicts. My age group of 60 plussers lived it like he drew it. Like someone else sadly pointed out, “I miss America”. I want it back. Not for me, but for my grandchildren and all the grandchildren in this country.
I was born in 1950. Lived a rural life most of my life.
Sigh.
“I did a small amount of background on Rockwell just to get an idea
of what he was about. Little doubt his connections were with the
Heartland of America and his art bears that out.”
Believe it or not I saw some of it in West Los Angeles.
Just like what my grandparents told me about the four years following
Dec. 7, 1941 in their area of southern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma.
Of course, this was after 9-11 and evaporated within a month or so.
Sadly, they remembered the West Los Angeles residents (in a vast
majority) remembered they were anti-American Democrats and returned
to the fold of Rep. Henry Waxman.
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