Happy Patriots Day
Saturday, April 19th, 2014
Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first battles of the American Revolutionary War
"The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
"While Pyle illustrated many different types of stories, his personal favorite were those on the colonial past and the war for independence. One of his students quoted him as saying,
“Colonial life appeals so strongly to me that to come across things that have been handed down from that time fills me with a feeling akin to homesickness . . . and my friends tell me that my pictures look as tho’ I had lived in that time.”*"
September 11, 2009
By Joyce K. Schiller, Curator, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies
Norman Rockwell Museum
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"This is a rare and extraordinary powder horn dating to 1775, just prior to the Revolutionary War. Features a stunning scrimshaw map of Boston, Massachusetts, noting Bunker’s Hill (Bunker Hill), Breeds Hill, Morton’s Point, Charlestown, Mill Pond, Hancock’s Warf, Long Warf, The South Battery, and Fox Hill. A legend to the left of the map reads, “A Pox on Rebels in ther CrYmes.” "Resources:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1775_Scrimshaw_Map_of_Boston_Carved_on_Revolutionary_War_Powder_Horn_-_Geographicus_-_BostonPowderHorn-1775.jpg
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project.
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