Saturday, October 16, 2010
When looking at the goings on, it’s important to remember we’re looking at public life as it was just after the devastating American Civil War. Personally, however, I’m always distracted from the broader picture by something my father told me way, way, way back when. Maybe it was during the Cuban missile crisis. He said that his greatest worry during his teenage years was that the earth would eventually be covered in horse dung. So I can’t look at a print depicting the good old days without looking for horse poop. (Dang! It’s like one of those tunes that gets trapped in your brain, and it won’t go away.)
