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Every so often, usually when Erie County is trying to find money for the library system, somebody suggests selling Childe Hassam’s painting, “Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals.” It’s a magnificent painting by the man who is widely considered the father of American Impressionism.
I recall a prominent local businessman suggesting that the county hire a painter to duplicate “Summer Afternoon,” and then sell the original, which in 2018 was thought to be worth more than $2 million.
During a recent vacation, our family visited the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, Connecticut, and viewed more than a dozen Hassam paintings. An administrator there said, “Tell Erie not to sell that painting under any circumstance, unless we can buy it.”
CNA Staff, May 4, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The Justice Department (DOJ) is backing a small community church suing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, arguing that the state cannot single out churches for public health restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lighthouse Fellowship Church on Virginia’s Eastern Shore filed suit last week against Northam’s stay-at-home order prohibiting church gatherings with more than ten people inside. The DOJ filed a statement of interest on Sunday in the case.
“The United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of its citizens’ fundamental right to the free exercise of religion, expressly protected by the First Amendment,” the brief states.