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...twelve murals they have painted are vivid, unabashed celebrations of rural Wisconsin life. On Ken Howell's dairy barn near Ashland, an ore boat steams across the clapboard siding, while an orange and crimson sun descends in a peacock blue sky. At Oak Creek, a 16-ft. cultivator depicted on the John and Arthur Mahr barn stands amid a luminous crazy quilt of rolling hillsides. Past poster-bright stands of timber and grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville...
...Jacobs Oak Park, Mich...
...While many of the town's corporate executives pay hip-service to conservation by boarding the crowded Burlington Northern for the commute to Chicago, their wives and children spend their lives in automobiles. To shop in a big supermarket, housewives must drive three miles to Oak Brook. There is no local public transportation system-and none is contemplated. In Hinsdale, where families with two or more cars are the norm, the auto rules not only the road, but life. Among the most popular makes: those big gas guzzlers that Carter is inveighing against...
...date was April 26, 1937, the place Guernica, spiritual home of the Basques and Basque nationalism, site of a revered oak tree under whose branches Basques had elected their representatives since the Middle Ages. The Spanish Civil War was in its ninth month, and troops of the provisional Basque government were fighting alongside Republican forces against Francisco Franco's Nationalists. The fragile front was about 15 miles from Guernica, a target of at best limited military value...
...tiny, 60-ft. stone-and-steel bridge over the narrow Mundaca River, a funnel for retreating Basque troops. But why incendiaries against a stone bridge? And why so massive a raid against so small a target? The Renteria Bridge, in any case, was never touched. Nor were the sacred oak and the adjoining Casa de Juntas (assembly hall) of the Basques, nor an important small-arms factory on the outskirts of town...