Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most ventures of its kind, the Bishop Hill colony left many memorabilia in its wake. The original church, school, blacksmith shop, inn, town hall remain. Thanks to a tipsy Civil War veteran who turned to painting because it was less arduous than horseshoeing, a gallery of 93 oils, among them a stack of portraits of the men who built Bishop Hill was also left behind...
...Virginia, to establish himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income of his own, he was free to devote much of his time to organizing Scottish Rite crippled children's homes...
...blacksmith with a little steel, a little leather and a couple of buckles can always turn out the fundamentals for a darn good seance but we call it MAGIC...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically. Her real name was Amy Lyon; her father was a blacksmith. Her profession, which she adopted in her teens, was "pleasing the gentlemen." Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh kicked her out because she was too noisy and expensive; the Hon. Charles Francis Greville got her cheap and did his skillful best to make a Galatea of her. He moderated her voice, calmed her taste in clothes, formed her manners, taught her to strike classical attitudes. When she was presentable he let her be seen...