Antique Homer Hardware

This is a very old sign painted on a c.1800's building in Homer New York where Ms.Simon has lived in a c. 1883 victorian home since 1985. Homer is... more

by Linda Simon

Title

Antique Homer Hardware

Artist

Linda Simon

Medium

Photograph

Description

This is a very old sign painted on a c.1800's building in Homer New York where Ms.Simon has lived in a c. 1883 victorian home since 1985. Homer is one of those wonderful historic New York towns that has preserved its heritage. The streets are lined with wonderful buildings with famous stories that played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer--a detective, a journalist, and a painter--helped inscribe Abraham Lincoln's place in the nation's iconic imagery. Private investigator Eli DeVoe foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln before his first inauguration; journalist William Osborn Stoddard, an early Lincoln supporter, became an influential secretary of the president; and artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet, which still hangs in the U.S. Capitol. This exploration of these men and the town that produced them offers insight into the complexities of presidential image-making, and reveals why a small New York town has become a choice destination for Lincoln historians. For more information read: Lincoln's Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective, (Author) Martin A. Sweeney, a former teacher of Ms. Simon's daughter Hillary.
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February 6th, 2013