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Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable...
William Elston Collings (1758-1828) and his wife, Phoebe Haugland, with their family lived at Pigeon Roost, Scott County, Indiana. They, along with the entire community, were subjects of the Indian massacre of 3 September, 1812. The authors have tried to locate descendants of the survivors, who have scattered throughout the country.
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