A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

The fall cranberry harvest was important to locals who often made enough money during the harvest to last well into the winter, and it served as a social event too. This 1890s photo shows the buckets for hand picking, the sorting table and barrels used for shipping.

RIP Tom Lehrer.

The Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC on this day 140 years ago, disassembled into 350 pieces. It was reassembled & erected on its pedestal the next year. These images in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division show pieces of the statue while it was still being made.

On this day, 250 years ago, Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on the march. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized the ride, and took some liberties, in a poem that turned the silversmith into a legend.

Happy #WorldArtDay to all the makers out there, and to all who enjoy and support their work.

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 precious art works from the Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been restored and remain as stark reminders of the notorious, unsolved art heist.

#mondaymoment Two cats spy each other through the arches of old Marrakesh.
#ExploreCreateInspire #ArtWolfe #CanonLegend #potd #Morocco

Morning Mist - Notre Dame
Watercolor - 22x15 inches
@bsky.art

Mary Gray's husband, Captain Joshua Gray, prepared to lead a company of Yarmouth militia to Boston in the 1770s to repel the British. The night before the they left Mary and other women made bullets from their pewter at the Gray home on the corner of 6A and Wharf Lane. #WomensHistoryMonth

Sailor's valentines were commonly thought to be crafted by sailors for their sweethearts, but were actually made in some of the Caribbean islands like Barbados by those who lived there, and sold to sailors in port. Modern artists still craft them. Happy Valentine's Day!

The last few days have been cold enough for ice to form on some of the ponds. Here you can see men harvesting ice on Sandy Pond in West Yarmouth, January 1934. Harvested ice would be packed in sawdust and stored in an outdoor building and often lasted well into the summer.

“A man may stand there and put all America behind him.”

“Cape Cod” by Henry David Thoreau.

#Truro

#DYK? During the period from 1863 to 1929, the US Government permitted thousands of banks to issue their own currency under the National Banks Acts of 1863 and 1864. Here is an example of a note issued by the First National Bank of Yarmouth in 1904.

Winter Color - NYC
Watercolor 12x22 inches
#art #architecture #watercolor #winter #nyclife CentralPark.com @bsky.art

The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfleet on Thursday.