Kim Klaussen's "Texture Tuesday" & a Poem "Latham Park School"

Latham Park School

Playful frocks and
side button boots,

pause for a moment 

in 1898

as Willa Cather publishes "The Way of the World",
Roosevelt becomes a Rough Rider,

the Battle of San Juan Hill bloodies history, 

Annie Oakley offers McKinely fifty "lady sharpshooters" 

George Gershwin is born, 

Sherlock Holmes rushes to print,

Russian Czar expels Jews from his cities,

an automobile reaches 39 mph

with braids in disarray,

bosom friends resume recess

a new century
cradled in their hands.

Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, September 11, 2012


This is for Kim Klassen's "Texture Tuesday" Back to School Edition.  I used "paper script II"  Click on over and see what she is all about... on-line classes and "freebie" downloads.  It is a lot of fun!

My grandmother, Marguerite Hutchins is in the center.

I was going to write about their clothes, but somehow the poem became something else. If vintage clothing is of interest to you, please check HERE .  It is a fabulous fashion site - I have never come across one with so many beautiful vintage clothes.  I have it set for "children's fashion", but you can browse around as you wish.