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<DIV>Gerald,</DIV>
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<DIV>I believe I have a postcard of the painting you describe that I received
from you...I really enjoy your depictions of our town and always wanted to thank
you for sharing them with us.</DIV>
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<DIV>Adrianne Lefkowitz</DIV>
<DIV>Madison Street</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks
Emily. It's thoughts and memories like these that give meaning and character
to our little town of Riverdale Park. Though I was first attracted by the
historic mansion of George Calvert and the many parks, river, and fields
sprinkled about the town, I soon came to realize that Riverdale Park was
really created by the railroad and perhaps the trolley. I've enjoyed riding
into the city via the Mark Train for a number of years. I've met and talked
with a number of train watchers, and while the Riverdale Bookshop was still
alive, I shared the thundering, rumbling clatter of heavy trains that would
interrupt the musicians as they played for a room full of townsfolk. It was
exhilarating and memorable. I felt that this was a special place. <BR>I did
a painting of a small boy with his grandmother sitting in the window of
the Bookshop. Just outside, a freight is traversing the intersection. The boy,
who is suppose to be reading, is looking out the window at the train. The
train seems to offer excitement and flights of fancy to the youth. It will
become an intimate part of his character, and some day, the inspiration for
artistic or literary expression. I called the painting, "The Reading Lesson."
<BR>Save the horns, whistles and clatter of steel wheels over steel rails.
They're intoxicating.<BR>Gerald King<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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