Crooked River Burning, blog post #8

Crooked River Burning does not move me as the Color Me Butterfly did. Although, I enjoy my emotions being stirred during my readings and this book does not deliver it, I do appreciate the history lesson. I have lived here for nineteen years, and I can not say I know much about Cleveland; therefore, a quick look into its history meets my interest. Parts I enjoy more are the dialogues between Anne and her father.

It was also interesting to find out that there was a Polish community on the West side in Old Brooklyn. The only one I knew about was Slavic Village on the East side called Warsaw. This was the first place I called home after arriving in Cleveland.

Speech Two blog post #9

The topic of my Speech Two is a painting Blue Boy. It was done by an English painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1770. To get a quick information and a visual, I have to admit, I did pick in Wikipedia. I have found artist’s biography in The Dictionary of Art. According to other online sources, outside of Wikipedia, Blue Boy belonged to Gainsborough’s most famous paintings. To my surprise, it was not even mentioned in The Dictionary of Art. My research in the library was not very successful, since the articles were not readily available. I have ordered Gainsborough in Bath (he painted Blue Boy while living there) through Ohio Link Library Catalog from Ohio State. In order to fulfil the assignment I will have to use the information found in The Dictionary of Art and on line.

Works Cited

Gainsborough, Thomas. Blue Boy. 1770.

Gainsborough, Thomas. Blue Boy. 1770.

Turner, Jane, ed. “Ferrara to Gainsborough”. The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 11. London: Macmillan

Publishers Limited, 1996. New York: Grove’s Dictonaries Inc., 1996. 906-13.