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October 09, 2023

The Landing of Columbus, 1847, by John Vanderlyn

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New York-born John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) was a student of Gilbert Stuart. However, he was trained and worked in Paris. There he worked on this canvas for ten years. It is 12 feet by 18 feet.

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Fourteen

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Drum roll please. As of October 5. 2023, the patrician Chicago beauty and storied Ozark scrapper pictured here in mid-1950 have fourteen (14) great-grandkids. Fourteen and counting. Fourteen.

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Heidelberg

Tramps Like Us: Heidelberg Castle.

Around 1620, Jacques Fouquières painted Germany's Heidelberg Castle, a famous structure in both German history and art, in "Hortus Palatinus" (below). Although the Castle has been in splendid ruin for most of its history, artists still flock to its foundations, gardens and terracing. Camera-toting American lawyers do, too. I've spent several hours at the Castle on each of my four trips to Heidelberg--and I am sure I'll go again. Nearly 140 years ago, Heidelberg Castle was a hit with Americans. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as writer and humorist Mark Twain, wrote about the storied castle in Appendix B to his famous "A Tramp Abroad" (1880).

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