To work in such beauty is certainly a distraction, but Frederick Church made the best of the Hudson Valley and became America’s highest paid artist. Read about his home than visit it. You will be awed beyond belief.
“Well, all I know is what I read in the papers,” said Will Rogers. If you agree with Mr. Rogers and apply it to the reports of the fire that destroyed much of the Belgian Exposition of 1910, you would be more “confused” than “educated.” Thanks to postcards that show the ruins those who collect such cards were better informed than most reporters.