Western imperialists and their media pundits are once again crying “foul” against the sovereign government of Belarus and its duly elected president, Alexander Lukashenko. On May 23, a Ryanair passenger plane, scheduled to fly from Greece to Lithuania, was forced to land in Minsk, Belarus. On the plane was 26-year-old…
This crazy quilt’s back story boosts its value and interest for collectors OregonLive.com 1 hr ago Carolyn Patten, oregonlive.com
In today’s collection, a beautiful handmade quilt with a lovely, all-American back story leads the group in interest and value, followed closely by a sleek Arts and Crafts style chandelier that evokes a time in American when electricity was the newest kid on the block for home lighting. We also look at a German military helmet from World War I, a Japanese ceramic and a faux ivory vase.
Crazy quilt
Q. A relative, Rebecca Jane Pearson Hiatt, made this quilt sometime between the year of her marriage to Jesse Hiatt in 1848 and the year of her death in 1911. It measures 58 inches by 68 inches and is in excellent condition. Jesse was a farmer in Indiana when he discovered and developed the original Red Delicious apple.
“And men will not understand us…and the war will be forgotten – and the generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside. We will be superfluous even to ourselves…the years will pass by and we shall fall into ruin.” – Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (image courtesy Goodreads)
It is often called the greatest war novel of all time.
Erich Maria Remarque’s depiction of the horror of an ordinary soldier’s life in World War I,
All Quiet on the Western Front, is a work of great power that haunts one long after one has completed it. Like other great examiners of war from Grimmelshausen to Stephen Crane to Norman Mailer to Kevin Powers, Remarque has the skill to give us the psychological horror of being lost on the battlefield – and lost at home.