Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and Main Street tableaus flicker

and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

Mädler's Alcyone Theory charts a heresy of the heavens: Johann Mädler's conjecture that all creation wheels around Alcyone

each arc and isobar a quiet argument that the sea answers to the heavens

Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and Main Street tableaus flickerWoodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 a fraternal portrait of Joseph Cullen Root, founder of the order whose carved tree tombstones would soon dot American cemeteries from Omaha to the Carolinas, rendered with the solemn ornament that lodge culture demanded of its patriarchs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the