Word: hoosick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Impatiently plotting to get sprung from the Hoosick Falls (N.Y.) Health Center, where she has been temporarily inactivated for the past two months, Pastoral Painter Grandma Moses breezed past her latest birthday with one modest request, "I want my 101st to be the same as my first-very quiet...