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I still have 4 pages left. I’m turning them slooowly

“What about the time May Potter ran off with Dudd Hart in the middle of the night, and May’s father heard her leave and ran after the couple in the snow to tell them he felt fine about them getting … Continue reading

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“It was a hard life.”

Jean Lee (wife of photographer Russell Lee) of the people of Pie Town: “It was a hard life, but I don’t think they considered it a particularly hard life at the time. There was a lot of self-entertainment there–the forty-two … Continue reading

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trying to paint Doris Caudill

Doris is the reason I was initially interested in Pie Town. I was looking through the Library of Congress collection on Flickr.com when I discovered this photo: What an amazing face she has. This is the face of a woman … Continue reading

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