Word: minniesland
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Thus James McGrath, railroad worker, occupant of rooms in a house on the upper end of Manhattan, Island. Experts in the restoration of paintings ruefully agreed that "those birds have flown away for good." Ruefully, because the house where James McGrath lived used to be known as "Minniesland" and the land around it as Audubon Park. In "Minniesland" lived John James Audubon (1780-1851), famed wanderer of the trackless American wilderness, hirsute ornithologist and painter extraordinary of wild life. Beyond a doubt the palimpsest laid bare by Mr. McGrath on his kitchen walls was the work, casual or studied...
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