Word: planters
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Born in Haiti as the illegitimate son of a French planter and slave trader and his Creole mistress, Audubon was sent to France for a brief education and then to live on a property owned by his father near Philadelphia, where he became enamored of local birds and wildlife. But a series of businesses he tried all failed; in 1819 he had to declare bankruptcy. That was when, at age 35, he decided to enlarge the collection of American bird paintings he had done over the years and prepare them for publication...
...houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung it in the saloon of a house whose Anglo-Palladian design had been based on a pattern book by the English architect James...
...Lampoon allegedly harbors bad feelings towards former Cambridge mayor and Freedom tree-planter Alfred E. Vellucci. And while many suspect that the butchering and poisoning may have been the Lampoon's revenge against the maverick former mayor, nothing has been proven...
...Intellectually, they aren't racists," Planter says. "But in their hearts...
Having worked as a tree planter in Canada, I would like to put in perspective Union Carbide's commitment to plant half a million trees by the year 2000 ((EARTH DAY, April 23)). In Ontario a crew of 40 workers can plant 50,000 trees in a day. In ten days they can achieve what Union Carbide has promised to do in ten years...