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...repairing stuff and other skills that Cassandra and I pay people for. But they're a little too country; they think window screens are for stuck-up people, and not once since I've known them have they been able to use their cell phones. Besides, they live in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. - a town so small, there weren't enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian once Laszlo turns 15. Her brother Ian and his wife...
...Grandma Moses; in New York City. A Viennese art merchant who fled his country after the Nazi invasion, Kallir opened a gallery in New York in 1939 specializing in German and Austrian expressionism. He became best known, however, for presenting the works of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident who did not start painting seriously until age 76. "I may be prejudiced," Kallir once said of his client, who died at age 101 in 1961, "but . . . history will declare her work the finest example of folk painting ever produced...
...paintings on display in the drugstore window in the town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., were as bright as a calico dress, gay as an old-fashioned quilt-bustling scenes of country folk doing everyday chores. The artist was obviously untrained, but to Manhattan Collector Louis Caldor, who spotted them and bought them for an average of $4 each, they had a kind of magic. Who had painted them? An old lady of 78, Caldor was told, who lived down on Cambridge Road. She was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, and from that moment until she slipped quietly into death last week...
...twelve, she left home to become a hired girl. It was, she later recalled with her unshatterable cheeriness, "a grand education for me in cooking, housekeeping, in moralizing and mingling with the outside world." One day, when she was 26. she met a tall, blue-eyed Hoosick Falls hired man named Tom Moses. "Howda," she said, and with that her courtship began...
Died. Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, 101, famed U.S. primitive painter; of what her doctor described as "just wearing out"; in Hoosick Falls...