The painter Michael Ancher arrived in Skagen the summer of 1874, when Anna was 16 years old and he was 10 years her senior. Michael had received academic art training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the 1870s, and was drawn to the seaside to capture large-scale scenes of f...
Mom was moved into a senior living apartment. My brother and his wife have been her principle caretakers ever since we moved her from Central Texas to Eastern Oregon. And she lived on her own up until mid-September. Not quite as independently...
he had been focused on the screen, trying to score off "the little guy who goes back and forth shooting the aliens," but at 12:30 the sound of the telephone disturbed his concentration. Very few people had his new number, by necessity unlisted. Since the ...
Recently, Jewell and I took the 90-minute drive from Atlanta to Habersham County, which has acres of apple orchards. The leaves were turning, and the roads were mostly deserted. In the towns, however, were stores, apple stands, and even a good Chinese restaurant. As Jewell's blue pickup...
This was a great change from living in town. The farm was quite large. It had many orchards, pastures for hundreds of sheep and broad fields of grain. The house stood on a hill, and the lawns surrounding it were filled with lush flower gardens. ...
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