"Woman reading by a lamp"
Acrylic on Canvas
16" X 20"
$600 + S/H
Title: "Woman Reading By a Lamp" June 2008
By Billy Roper, Jasper GA 30143
When I was growing up most of the time we had coal oil lamps for light. I learned to read such as it is by one of them.
When the wick would get short they would attach a strip of felt if they had it (from a straining bonnet from a licker still in our case) a cloth would work if that was all you had.
Our lamp globes was cleaned everyday and the wick trimmed when needed. It just makes me sick to see them on television the flame run half way up the globe and the globe black half way down. But it light up a whole room. That ain't so.
This woman here is reading the almanac with her cat. I have seen that so many times. If you had the almanac and the Bible you was ok and in fine shape. As a child reading was a big thing at our house. We had no radio or television most of the time when I got older we did. I read all the time I could.
One time this teacher made fun of me for reading a book about Clara Barton. To this day I still don't know what her problem was. But, knowledge gained is knowledge gained.
Lamps don't make no difference. It is just that some people's lamps are little dimmer than other.
B R
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