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We live in anxious times. But many times in our past were far more anxious, and the reasons for anxiety then were more compelling. Consider, for example, the situation facing the world in the early months of 1941, when Hitler’s triumphant armies controlled continental Europe, when only the British Isles managed to hold out, and when the future of liberty looked very dim indeed, when civilization itself seemed imperiled. Yet at that moment, the novelist John Dos Passos chose to pen these words: “In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.”
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We live in anxious times. But there have been many times in our past that were far more anxious, and in which the reasons for anxiety were far more compelling. We must remember that.
Consider, for example, the situation facing the world in the early months of 1941, when Hitler’s triumphant armies controlled continental Europe, when only the British Isles managed to hold out, and when the future of liberty looked very dim indeed, when civilization itself seemed imperiled. Yet at that moment, the novelist John Dos Passos chose to pen these words:
In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present….REF
westminster, the beginning and end of this century-long study that i ve completed. when i was visiting the benington museum a few summers ago i not only made the acquaintance of james wilson, first american commercial globemaker but i discovered the unique power of objects to tell a story that s not available to us from the textural record. to be honest, i had come to the museum really although i said i came to look at objects i came to look at the cure torial files, looking at text, which i was much more comfortable with. an exhibit on vermont furniture in the early republic. but as i wandered through the sunlit main gallery where the museum s treasured objects were displayed, i started to see things that helped me understand how artisans and consumers and those are really the two groups imagined their world. first my eye was struck by a large neoclassical sideboard that you see here with this oops. with this graceful bow front and sleek lines looking for all the wor