Mary gets all her envelopes ready ahead of time and then gets them in the mail promptly. Her horse theme with barbed wire lettering is adorable and the lettering is surprisingly easy to read. I like the little horses. It's such a pretty stamp. She enclosed a postcard from Great Sand Dunes National Park. I had to look that one up. It's in Colorado.
I'm testing my Big Helpful Brother to see if he still reads the blog. If you read this, please text me and tell me if you ever went to that National Park - please and thank you. Or you may leave a comment in the comment section.
***
Clover sent me a link to an archive back in January. It arrived as I was re-adjusting to my return to Des Moines and the weather was cold so I had a good excuse to surf around the archive. The snowman archive caught my eye. Here is one from Iowa in 1918.
LINK to main page of archive in case you are not curious about snowmen
Here are the first few lines from the article:
What did the first snowman look like? And who rolled it? In the early 2000s, Bob Eckstein, the world’s foremost (only?) snowman historian, went searching for an icy Adam and its mittened creator, and arrived, four years later, on an illumination from a late-fourteenth century medieval book of hours: folio 78v of MS KB, KA 36, held by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague.
***
Jean's comment -- I think the snowman historian(s) should have clarified that this is only researching the first recording of the making of snowmen.
The Venus of Willendorf is 30,000 years old - give or take a century.
If people were carving little stone images, I'm sure they were sending their kids out to play in the snow and the kids were making snowmen. For people who did not take art history - I'll add the Venus below.
 |
| Berlin, 1913 |
Who's tempted to make a snowman replica of this?
How about I get some friends and we put one up in the front yard of the museum in my back yard?
Coffee too strong?
I'm all over it! I'd be happy to make a Venus of Willend snowlady in front of the museum. I've enjoyed making a variety with the nephews.
ReplyDeleteI drove past the entry to sand dunes park but didn't have time to stop.
ReplyDelete