vy fashions in art come and go, but throughout American cultural
v tl have always been artists interested in capturing scenes from
IY life. Rather than painting dreamy landscapes or at a later time,
p'ractions, they have captured people engaged in commonplace ac-
f. Thers often is a democratic art, and though it depicts the human
it can be difficult to understand without an awareness of society's
d attitudes "The New Hat," by Charles Dana Gibson, contrasts the
Upper and working classes.
A family album
I
Everyday life in American Art
by DAVIDM. MAXFIELD sidewalk in Vicksburg, Miss. early ta00s in this country, it alike because of that era's based on events tram the past literature.
Smithsonian News Service
Once in the gallery, it takes
only a moment to sense a
kinship with the characters in
the works of art. These figures
are, in a' way, the "American
family," generations of or-
dinary people going about
everyday life on the frontier
and the farm, in America's
small towns and big cities.
This room is a family album.
The mountain man, the
trapper of beaver in the
Rockies, is here. So, too, are
the emigrants heading west in
1840 by oxen and Conestoga
wagon. Union troops stand in
formation in a later painting,
while pedestrians scurry for
safety in a New York street
scene. Dock workers relax at
noon in another canvas•
One turn-of-the-century
painting shows two lovely
young women in a sunny
parlor, one writing letters, the
other reading. A 1936
photograph, taken as part of a
New Deal art program,
documents life passing by on a
In the artworks of the 1960s
and '70s, many sub-
jects--children and elderly
alike--look isolated and
detached in their urban set-
tings.
All of these artworks are in
the permanent collection of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., and will be
exhibited in the coming
months on a nationwide tour
organized by the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service. The
paintings, drawings, photos
and sculpture belong to a
category of fine art that
historians call genre, meaning
"a style of painting concerned
with depicting scenes and
subjects of common everyday
life."
Throughout the 20th-
century's preoccupation with
abstract painting, genre art
always maintained some
following and, now, as the
interest in realism revives,
this art is gaining wider favor.
Since genre emerged in the
"has never gone out of style,"
Coscoran Director Peter C.
Marzio says, "yet it has never
been the height of style."
One reason for this, he
believes, is that each
generation of critics and
artists thinks "either that
there is no tradition of art
from everyday life in America
or that the previous
generations were hopelessly
romantic, uncritical and
totally out of touch with
reality."
Then, too, comments Lois
Fink, the curator in the
department of research at the
Smithsonian's National
Museum of American Art,
other types of art, be they the
abstractions of recent years or
the grand "elevating" history
scene paintings of the 19th
century, have tended to
capture fashion's passing
prizes. In the last century,
history paintings such as
"Washington Crossing the
Delaware" were popular with
the public, critics and artists
interest in uplifting subjects and themes from American
(please turn to page 2A)
Edmund Charles Trabell's "Josephine and Mercie" presents the artist's vision
of the perfect home life.
TODAY'S
CHUCKLE
Never put off 'til
tomorrow what you can
avoid altogether.
THIS WEEK'S
PRESS RUN
life began, climatic flooding of land, and the which take into account the
"es, sad natural clearing of land for timber economic, recreational, and
n as volcanic production and agriculture ecological value of these areas
u forest fires, have drastically altered the have beeninitiated.
'tYna,.the" carrying carrying capacity of vast The nation's growing
a.. rural systems, areas of wildlifehabitat, demand for our diminishing
t'/&at could not Realizing that our actions natural resources--fossil
,,.2. changes or threaten many species of fuels, forests, grazing land-
"ate to another plants and animals with ex- s--has caused increased
the Northwest carved #the
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pressures to develop lands
that have been set aside for
wildlife. Therefore, more
research is currently being
undertaken to determine the
exact needs of threatened and
endangered wildlife across the
nation.
An excellent example of a
multiple-use management
plan that is balancing the
needs of wildlife with human
actions is the plan adopted by
the Snake River Birds of Prey
Conservation Area in north
central Idaho.
After intensive research by
the Bureau of Land
Management, it was doter-
mined that in order to support
the six hundred pairs of
nexting raptors living in the
conservation area, over 90
percent of the land tap-
proxim.atey 4., acre)
was pmcea mx llmlIs to
cropland conversion. It was
also determined that the high
cost of supplying the energy
needed to convert the area
into productive farmland
would be uneconomical, but
grazing, recreation, mining,
and National Guard training
activities could continue in the
area.
figure of an eagle in their
totem poles to represent a
spiritual relationship between
their families and this
majestic predator.
On June 20, 1782, the Con-
tinental Congress adopted the
bald eagle as the central
figure of the Great Seal of the
U.S.A. The District of
Columbia, and the states of
New York, Pennsylvania,
Mississippi, Missouri,
Arkansas, Michigan, Iowa,
Oregon, Utah, New Mexico
and Wyoming also use the
eagle in their official seal.
At the time the bald eagle
became our national symbol,
it nested throughout the
country. As the United States
expanded from thirteen
colonies to 50 states, the
population of the bald eagle
declined. The clearing of land
for agriculture and the
development of cities and
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has served as a symbol of
power, freedom, and im-
mortality. The Egyptians used
the eagle in their picture
writing (hieroglyphics) and
their priests made elaborate
eagle masks for special
religious ceremonies. Greek
coins dating back to 413 B.C.
the eagle
Since the beginning of industry urastically reduced
recorded history, the eagle eagle nesting and roosting
habitat. Egg collecting and
shooting also contributed to
the decline of the bald eagle.
On June 8, 1940, in response
to the need to protect our
national symbol, Congress
enacted the Bald Eagle
Protection Act. Despite strict
enforcement of the Act, the
number of bald eagles
decreased rapidly in the 1950's
and 1960's. This was mainly
due to the widespread use of
pesticides such as DDT. These
long-lasting pesticides
drained off farmlands into
streams, rivers, and lakes and
concentrated in the fatty
tissues of fish. Bald eagles fed
on these contaminated fish,
and the pesticides interfered
with the proper production of
the eagles' eggs.
The Department of the
Interior officially lists the bald
eagle as "endangered" in 43 of
the 48 contous states and
"threatened" in the other
five: Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Oregon and
Washington. (It is not en-
dangered or threatened in
Alaska and has never existed
in Hawaii.)
Fortunately, greater public
awareness of the bald eagle's
decline in the past two
decades has led to an im-
provement in its once bleak
future. In the last ten years
the use of pesticides such as
DDT has been restricted in the
United States, eagle refuges
have been established, and
penalties for illegal shooting
of bald eagles have been
(please turn to page 5A)
If I were an ea00le
by Stun Kulewicz
If I were an eagle
My arms would be wings
My feet would have talons
To grasp on to things.
If I were an eagle
I'd have two shiny eyes
My sight would be keen
Spotting prey from the skies.
If I were an eagle
My home would be a nest
With sticks, leaves and branches
l'd make it the best.
If I were an eagle
l What fun it would be ]
I But I think I'll stop dreaming ]
Because I like being me. ]
FOR SALE
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GRAND OPENING
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March 27 -- Saturday
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vy fashions in art come and go, but throughout American cultural
v tl have always been artists interested in capturing scenes from
IY life. Rather than painting dreamy landscapes or at a later time,
p'ractions, they have captured people engaged in commonplace ac-
f. Thers often is a democratic art, and though it depicts the human
it can be difficult to understand without an awareness of society's
d attitudes "The New Hat," by Charles Dana Gibson, contrasts the
Upper and working classes.
A family album
I
Everyday life in American Art
by DAVIDM. MAXFIELD sidewalk in Vicksburg, Miss. early ta00s in this country, it alike because of that era's based on events tram the past literature.
Smithsonian News Service
Once in the gallery, it takes
only a moment to sense a
kinship with the characters in
the works of art. These figures
are, in a' way, the "American
family," generations of or-
dinary people going about
everyday life on the frontier
and the farm, in America's
small towns and big cities.
This room is a family album.
The mountain man, the
trapper of beaver in the
Rockies, is here. So, too, are
the emigrants heading west in
1840 by oxen and Conestoga
wagon. Union troops stand in
formation in a later painting,
while pedestrians scurry for
safety in a New York street
scene. Dock workers relax at
noon in another canvas•
One turn-of-the-century
painting shows two lovely
young women in a sunny
parlor, one writing letters, the
other reading. A 1936
photograph, taken as part of a
New Deal art program,
documents life passing by on a
In the artworks of the 1960s
and '70s, many sub-
jects--children and elderly
alike--look isolated and
detached in their urban set-
tings.
All of these artworks are in
the permanent collection of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., and will be
exhibited in the coming
months on a nationwide tour
organized by the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service. The
paintings, drawings, photos
and sculpture belong to a
category of fine art that
historians call genre, meaning
"a style of painting concerned
with depicting scenes and
subjects of common everyday
life."
Throughout the 20th-
century's preoccupation with
abstract painting, genre art
always maintained some
following and, now, as the
interest in realism revives,
this art is gaining wider favor.
Since genre emerged in the
"has never gone out of style,"
Coscoran Director Peter C.
Marzio says, "yet it has never
been the height of style."
One reason for this, he
believes, is that each
generation of critics and
artists thinks "either that
there is no tradition of art
from everyday life in America
or that the previous
generations were hopelessly
romantic, uncritical and
totally out of touch with
reality."
Then, too, comments Lois
Fink, the curator in the
department of research at the
Smithsonian's National
Museum of American Art,
other types of art, be they the
abstractions of recent years or
the grand "elevating" history
scene paintings of the 19th
century, have tended to
capture fashion's passing
prizes. In the last century,
history paintings such as
"Washington Crossing the
Delaware" were popular with
the public, critics and artists
interest in uplifting subjects and themes from American
(please turn to page 2A)
Edmund Charles Trabell's "Josephine and Mercie" presents the artist's vision
of the perfect home life.
TODAY'S
CHUCKLE
Never put off 'til
tomorrow what you can
avoid altogether.
THIS WEEK'S
PRESS RUN
life began, climatic flooding of land, and the which take into account the
"es, sad natural clearing of land for timber economic, recreational, and
n as volcanic production and agriculture ecological value of these areas
u forest fires, have drastically altered the have beeninitiated.
'tYna,.the" carrying carrying capacity of vast The nation's growing
a.. rural systems, areas of wildlifehabitat, demand for our diminishing
t'/&at could not Realizing that our actions natural resources--fossil
,,.2. changes or threaten many species of fuels, forests, grazing land-
"ate to another plants and animals with ex- s--has caused increased
the Northwest carved #the
LUCIEN L. BOURBEAU
INSURANCE AGENCY
J 802 FAIRL.E-E
I,, • -333.9224 . •
,TdQy Wedcloy 12 nn to 4.30 PM" ,,.
Y],, r.ZL='°W, 2 PM - PM ' " aSONAt a
FORMING IN BRADFORD
.'wl dru. miner , a bass player or a lead-
H me Immedlately. Call
i/U_ Cd)O]D, USED, SALEABLE
CLOTHING FOR ALL TH-E-FAMILY.
"THE CAROUSEL"
d, Vt. Four Seasons 80'Z--S
a0 FORPItI:UF TRUCKS l
(includes paint materials)
Booy WORK EXTRA
FIREWOOD
CUt, sp|| t aM delivend to order
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Your ad, this size,
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ROUTE 14
pressures to develop lands
that have been set aside for
wildlife. Therefore, more
research is currently being
undertaken to determine the
exact needs of threatened and
endangered wildlife across the
nation.
An excellent example of a
multiple-use management
plan that is balancing the
needs of wildlife with human
actions is the plan adopted by
the Snake River Birds of Prey
Conservation Area in north
central Idaho.
After intensive research by
the Bureau of Land
Management, it was doter-
mined that in order to support
the six hundred pairs of
nexting raptors living in the
conservation area, over 90
percent of the land tap-
proxim.atey 4., acre)
was pmcea mx llmlIs to
cropland conversion. It was
also determined that the high
cost of supplying the energy
needed to convert the area
into productive farmland
would be uneconomical, but
grazing, recreation, mining,
and National Guard training
activities could continue in the
area.
figure of an eagle in their
totem poles to represent a
spiritual relationship between
their families and this
majestic predator.
On June 20, 1782, the Con-
tinental Congress adopted the
bald eagle as the central
figure of the Great Seal of the
U.S.A. The District of
Columbia, and the states of
New York, Pennsylvania,
Mississippi, Missouri,
Arkansas, Michigan, Iowa,
Oregon, Utah, New Mexico
and Wyoming also use the
eagle in their official seal.
At the time the bald eagle
became our national symbol,
it nested throughout the
country. As the United States
expanded from thirteen
colonies to 50 states, the
population of the bald eagle
declined. The clearing of land
for agriculture and the
development of cities and
HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY
ROUTE 14
SOUTH BARRE, VT.
• BARRE HOME SUPPLY
SOUTH BARRE, VT.
M iss M uffet!
PRE-INVENTORY CLEARANCE
CARPETING
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BARRE HOME SUPPLY
EEIPRE
TALONN
PDIIAX
HEGGET
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ITOQEI
PATKST
DATORA I EEL
ZKOOATTYAE
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EAHTGRAALA
ENSAERETWL
PEHWAXRN I TLASNBM
I RBZQETAFR I CAUPO
NHADR I BCGRAPTORN
ETFEATHERSZLEMUR
has served as a symbol of
power, freedom, and im-
mortality. The Egyptians used
the eagle in their picture
writing (hieroglyphics) and
their priests made elaborate
eagle masks for special
religious ceremonies. Greek
coins dating back to 413 B.C.
the eagle
Since the beginning of industry urastically reduced
recorded history, the eagle eagle nesting and roosting
habitat. Egg collecting and
shooting also contributed to
the decline of the bald eagle.
On June 8, 1940, in response
to the need to protect our
national symbol, Congress
enacted the Bald Eagle
Protection Act. Despite strict
enforcement of the Act, the
number of bald eagles
decreased rapidly in the 1950's
and 1960's. This was mainly
due to the widespread use of
pesticides such as DDT. These
long-lasting pesticides
drained off farmlands into
streams, rivers, and lakes and
concentrated in the fatty
tissues of fish. Bald eagles fed
on these contaminated fish,
and the pesticides interfered
with the proper production of
the eagles' eggs.
The Department of the
Interior officially lists the bald
eagle as "endangered" in 43 of
the 48 contous states and
"threatened" in the other
five: Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Oregon and
Washington. (It is not en-
dangered or threatened in
Alaska and has never existed
in Hawaii.)
Fortunately, greater public
awareness of the bald eagle's
decline in the past two
decades has led to an im-
provement in its once bleak
future. In the last ten years
the use of pesticides such as
DDT has been restricted in the
United States, eagle refuges
have been established, and
penalties for illegal shooting
of bald eagles have been
(please turn to page 5A)
If I were an ea00le
by Stun Kulewicz
If I were an eagle
My arms would be wings
My feet would have talons
To grasp on to things.
If I were an eagle
I'd have two shiny eyes
My sight would be keen
Spotting prey from the skies.
If I were an eagle
My home would be a nest
With sticks, leaves and branches
l'd make it the best.
If I were an eagle
l What fun it would be ]
I But I think I'll stop dreaming ]
Because I like being me. ]
FOR SALE
18 YEARLING HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
$6,000 FOR LOT.
802-584-3327
LOOK FOR OUR DELl AD
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I O ! ' V. , I ol
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Supervised
(Behind Allen's Western Auto)
MondaY-Friday -- 3-9 PM-- Sat. 1-9 PM
[.M. Landscaping
RIVER ROAD
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Lawn mowing services for '1982' season.
i Call anytime. (603) 272-5864
A
Happy Birthday -i
Carol Robie!
We Love You!
FOR SALE
1978 CHEVROLET SHASTA CAMPER VAN
txllt ..mfitim -- no_rust, tow mileoge, new mdiol tires, automatic
stress,on. AM/FM Stereo .,sette, cm01etely eqippl. 13 to 15
tuned, reody to roll. CoN Bob Groy, o. Newbur, 802.866.3342. mll. Just
Your ad, this size, on page 1
of the Second Opinion
is only $10.00
748-2933
Colorful things for spring are
in American Indian Turquoise
Jewelry
Jewelry & Precious Stones
SUNSHINE BOUTIOUE
71 Eastern Ave,, St. Johnsbury
INVITATION TO BID
Town of Warren seeks bids on a new Dump
Truck. For Specs see Harry Wright, Road Agent,
or one of the Selectmen.
GRAND OPENING
NIMBLE THIMBLE FABRIC SHOP
March 27 -- Saturday
Rt. 5, Lower Plain, Bradford, Vt.
802-222-4516
L_ " 12 125
VIMOIIT -- Thofford, East Thefford, Thefford flill, Thetford Center, North Thetford, Post Mills, Fairlee, West Foirlee, Bradford, Bradford Village, Corinth, East Corinth, Topsham, West Topsham, Newbury Village, South Newbury, West Newbury, Wells River, Groton,
Ryegate Comer, East Ryegote, South Ryegate. Peachom, Bornet, West Bamet. .,
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