December 15, 2025
Tag: Delmarva Peninsula
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Two DelMarVa Sketch Artists and Their Postcards
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Each generation has its own sketch artists who use pencils, charcoals, pastels, chalks, and crayons to render hometown scenes, rural vistas, and family events in sketchbooks that are cherished by a cadre of descendants. This article by Bill Burton, Postcard History’s publisher, highlights two such practitioners of pencil art who lived and worked in a…
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October 13, 2021 3 Comments
On a day in the year 79 the citizens of Pompeii realized they had built their city too near the front gate of hell. When demons of fire spewed from Vesuvius, they destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and thousands who lived there and the art they appreciated. It took 18 decades to recover it.