European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Winslow homers the 19th to a try in America was a time of gentle innocence family affection hard. Hood in the face of heavy tasks and the simple integrity of of unsophisticated Way of life. Just in Walt Whitman recorded in verse the virtue of a Young nation window Homer one of America v great if not Alscy appreciated artists re corded that simpler Era with an affectionate but realistic Eye. He depicts the pleas ures of Berry picking com husking and Deer Hunting of digging through the Snow drifts to reach the Bam of watching the Spring Flowers come up. It was a world of one room  simple pleasures such As singing and dancing the Days of family reunions county fairs and Church socials a time of farming fishing and numbering hard physical labor softened by the Comfort of glowing hearths and Harvest festivals and jugs of cider. Life was rugged and unrefined and the men who went Down to the sea in Pursuit of cod and flounder had to face the ravages of storms and shipwrecks. But there were no planes no bombs no fear of nuclear destruction no riots in the cities no psychedelic flights to escape reality. Here then is a look at that world As Homer 1836-1910 saw it Token from an exhibit of Homer s graphics organized by the museum of graphic Art in new York and now touring museums in the . Miles Davis a raid on a Sand Swallow nest 1874. Illi is i of if a r .4- -,-.- i t d i4 a Homer made this drawing of Gloucester Harbor in 1873 la Tsvi lumbering in Winter 1871. While the men worked on fishing boats boys built their own models. 10 an i860 View of skating in Central Park Long before the Day of the Rockefeller Center the stars and try put sunday Jomary 19, 1969 shovelling out on a Winter morning in 1871, sunday january 19, 1969 girl watching at the Beach was a tame affair in 1869, the stars and stripes Page 11