Word: shipwrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally a craftsman of exceptional talent-a Matthew Pratt or Charles Willson Peale-would take up painting as a career. But producing folk art remained largely a part-time occupation of the village cabinetmaker, sign painter, stonecutter or shipwright-or was carried on by the womenfolk at home. The practitioners were nearly always self-taught, untrained in technique or even perspective, and tended to thrive far from urban cultural centers. But they made up for their deficiencies with sharp-eyed observation, an infectious joyousness in their labor, and a remarkable freshness of vision (see color...
Selling the Evidence. Dawn, 27, has always had a flair for making waves, in the pool and out. The strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.) daughter of a Sydney shipwright, now married to a bookmaker, she has broken 36 world records, won four Olympic gold medals. She was the first woman to crack 1 min. for the 110-yd. free style, the only swimmer of either sex to win the same event (the 100 meters) in three successive Olympic competitions. ("If I had been able to swim nude," she says, "I'm sure I would have broken...