Country Writer A Southerner’s Look at Then and Now

  • 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.
    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 ho...

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