I have been painting a heart daily now since May 15, 2011. On a dare, I posted them for sale on the social network. Each one has a short story of what the day event is or was. Some days, my life is just not all that word worthy. So, I get the history books and try to find something that I can relate to. It has been super fun to learn and look back at our US history. I think the world was a better place in the 50's. What was right and what was wrong was never a grey area.
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| In the loft of Dillinger's Hide Out |
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| John Dillinger |
On July 22, 1934 outside
Chicago's Biograph Theatre, notorious criminal John Dillinger--America's "Public Enemy No. 1"--is killed in a hail of bullets fired by federal agents. In a fiery bank-robbing career that lasted just over a year, Dillinger and his associates robbed 11 banks for more than $300,000, broke jail and narrowly escaped capture multiple times, and killed seven police officers and three federal agents. During my first summer break from college (1972) I studied sculpture with Mustafa Naguib in Hobart, Indiana and the farm buildings that we worked in were some of Dillinger’s hide outs. My instructor about 40 years my senior flirted with me and it was a rough summer for me growing up. I was so naive and I remember so scared of him. Regardless of the human distractions and obstacles that long summer I could sculpt like the wind! To date, I have sculpted over 300 sculptures and all were created in the Midwest. Bet you did not know that about me.
