Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Hill, Ill. (pop. 208), site of one of earliest Swedish religious communes in the Midwest, was all astir last week. Carpenters were busily plugging a hole carelessly burned in the Old Colony Church roof last April while townsfolk prepared to feed several thousand visitors next week at a picnic to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the purchase from the U. S. Government of the Bishop Hill colony's land. Simultaneously, the attention of U. S. art critics was being called to Bishop Hill because it had just been discovered that the Old Colony Church housed the nation...
...pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their first parcel of 60 acres in Henry County, called the settlement Bishop Hill...
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...
Late in the 1570's Olof Krans whose art was entirely self-taught, began painting the Jansonites. Between drinking bouts he kept at it for years, doing his friends and neighbors in return for enough money to get another bottle. Since the Bishop Hill males happened to be strong individualists who rarely shaved, the resulting gallery is not only historically but barbaryologically noteworthy...
...Dandy of Bishop Hill, John Wallin preferred the Newgate Fringe, a half moon of whiskers about a bald face...