WASHINGTON TWP. | First-grade teacher Kate Burchfield, married with three daughters, said she was living a normal life in Midland, Ga., when Jesus called her to unite Christians.
If the prospect of a subway series has you aching for a road trip instead, take a swing through Pennsylvania where baseball bats actually grow on trees.
Solemnly, Cmdr. Don Atkins of American Legion High Desert Post 56 approached the podium. To his left a rifle was jammed into the ground, flanked by an American flag and simple white cross.
ON A recent morning in their office at the foot of the Koolau mountains, Joseph Souza strummed an ukulele and sang in a Hawaiian falsetto while his wife, Kristen, danced a hula.
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a large man who packed a great deal into a tiny space. He is famous for his vignettes, including his tailpieces which are sometimes no bigger than a postage stamp. Peer into these wood engravings and you find an entire world of fact and suggestion.
Jenny Uglow's canny grasp of period detail immeasurably enriches Nature's Engraver, her life of 18th-century engraver Thomas Bewick, says Frances Spalding.
Drypoint, the simplest method for producing intaglio prints—the family of printmaking that involves cutting into a metal plate—is viewed by many of its practitioners as a type of drawing.
Line has been around for a long time. Ever since the prehistoric era, when that first artist picked up a lump of wood ash from a spent campfire and outlined a hand on the cave wall, lines have described forms of all types—human, animal, and landscape. On its own, line is a very powerful force.