Rural depopulation as labour moved to work in city factories, dominance of larger suppliers in food markets, draining waterlogged land, and the development of the tractor.
Category Archive: General
Knitting shepherdesses, peasant girls, smallholders, a goose girl, fisher girls, by Millet, Breton, LA Ring, Winslow Homer and others.
Knitting and crochet as a sign of history, Welsh identity, the bored chaperone, the height of a party, or a peaceful and productive pastime.
Apollo’s discus strikes Hyacinthus in the face. As he dies from that wound, his spilt blood is turned into the hyacinth flower in his memory.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 284. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unsolicited […]
Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers on Broadway, Columbus Circle, and Manhattan. George Bellows’ human landscapes, and Joseph Stella’s Coney Island and Brooklyn Bridge.
William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Unsolicited crypto, […]
Interior design by the wives of Carl Larsson (Sweden), LA Ring (Denmark), Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian) and others.
Ploughing, sowing, weeding, calving and lambing, the hay harvest, sheep shearing, the grain harvest, fruit harvests, then back again to the start.
