Country Writer A Southerner’s Look at Then and Now
Country Writer A Southerner’s Look at Then and Now
Most people think that this image is a painting. It actually is a photograph taken of a Minnesota traveling salesman over 100 years ago. Columnist John Moore’s grandmother had the picture hanging in her home. He now has it in his.
When I was a child, there was a painting that hung on my grandmother’s kitchen wall. It portrayed a man who was praying over a meal of bread and what appeared to be a bowl of soup. Near the man was a book, which I always assumed was a Bible, and a pair of spectacles.
From my earliest recollections until my dad’s mother passed, I remember looking at this painting while we ate in her home and wonderi…
