Cooper’s Falls is a famous near ghost town with buildings that throw back to the 1940s and beyond. With old style gas pumps and a brick general store, it stands out at night lit by a single string of lights that cross the county road. And until this past week, there was the indomitable and […]
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Cooper House and General Store © 2009 Michelle Basic Hendry Recently, I had the privilege of visiting Frank Cooper’s General Store. The store has been closed since the early 1960’s and Frank, grandson of Thomas Cooper the founder of the community, operated his Excavation business from the location. Frank is still a busy man at […]
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Cooper’s Shed, 8×10, acrylic on canvas © Michelle Basic Hendry Cooper’s Shed is the first in a short series of paintings I am doing on the small, nearly ghost town, of Cooper’s Falls. I introduced Cooper’s Falls and the grandson of it’s founder Mr. Frank Cooper to you in August. This is a shed that […]
Continue ReadingWindermere Farm and an Adventure
Windermere Farm, acrylic, 30×36″ © Michelle Basic Hendry This is a large painting of the Veitch farm on Windermere Road. Interestingly enough, across town on the same day as my opening, was the opening for Sara Jane Doberstein and Annie Veitch at the Gateway Gallery owned by Anita Stephenson. I managed to get to the […]
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