Stockbridge, Massachusetts

What does one need to be happy? Is it a nice car? Maybe it's a new pair of shoes? What about success? What defines success and what does one need to be successful? The truth is, it depends on one's definition. Success can be defined in different ways. Success could be defined as being financially stable, or it could be something as simple as feeling accomplished with achieved goals. Norman Rockwell’s painting “The Catch” offers refreshing ideas on what it means to be happy and what one needs to

her new freedom. She became a paid servant at the Sedgwick household, where she grew very close to them, and gained enough money to get a house for her family. She proved to be a driving force in ending the slave trade in the new Commonwealth of Massachusetts which officially ended on March 26,

south of Albany. Their owner was Pieter Hogeboom, who was the head of a wealthy Dutch-American family. In 1735, Hogeboom’s daughter Hannah married John Ashley, who was the son of one of the original proprietors permitted by the General Court of Massachusetts to organize settlements along the Housatonic River. When Hogeboom died in 1758, Lizzie and her were taken

famous artwork is known as an oil painting. The Runaway was painted during 1958 and measures 35” x 33”. This amazing piece of work can currently be found in the Norman Rockwell Museum in his collection of artworks. This museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Normal Rockwell used state trooper Richard J. Clemens Jr. to model as the state trooper in the painting and used eight-year-old Ed Locke to pose as the boy. The painting was created at the Howard Johnson’s Restaurant. The Runaway’s scene

Boston Cremes. Wayne Thiebaud, 1962, (14 in. x 18 in. Crocker Art Museum) This painting is done with oil on canvas. The painting itself holds visual texture and substance. The repetition and sorting is well executed. With some other works, subject matter which is so simple can come off as bland and boring. Yet Thiebaud was able to turn something so simple into a beautiful piece of art. Wayne Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and defined shadowing. All while the attention to detail is divine. With the well

household of John Ashley in Massachusetts. When Ashley's wife attacked her, Betts appealed to a local abolitionist, who brought her case to the courts. Betts was granted her freedom and 30 shillings in damages in 1781, with the case Brom and Betts v. Ashley. Betts became a paid servant and raised a family on her wages. Mum Bett, or “Mumbet” as she was referred to passionately, proved to be extremely determined in ending the slave trade in the new Commonwealth of Massachusetts when she successfully sued

Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale and Hope Leslie - Opening Doors for Women Limited opportunities for women to share their opinions publicly throughout the Nineteenth century caused an abundance of females to communicate their ideas through writing. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was among the first of American authors to publish historical and other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood

Wappinger are one of many Native American tribes. Originally from between the Bronx and the east side of the Hudson River. Except for a few small groups, most Wappinger had left the lower Hudson Valley by 1760 and settled in western Massachusetts with the Mahican at Stockbridge, the Iroquois in New York, or the Delaware in Pennsylvania. By 1700 epidemics (including malaria) had reduced the lower Hudson tribes to 10 per cent of their original number. Only a few hundred Wappinger remained in the lower Hudson

he had kept notebooks that were labeled, “The Mind”, “Natural Science”, “The Scriptures”, and “Miscellanies”. Edwards enjoyed natural history, and scientific literature. He also studied the behavior of some spiders. In 1727 at Northampton, Massachusetts , Edwards was ordained as a minister and an assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. As a student minister, his had a personal rule of studying at least thirteen hours of study time a day. This same year, he had married Sarah Pierpont

During an Indian speech given by Captain Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut, the Chief gives his insight on the war between who he addresses the Massachusetts Congress as “Brothers” and Old England. In the Chief’s speech, he takes notice in the feud between the two countries and addresses them both as friends, and neither as a threat or biased foe. In The Chief’s speech, Solomon says, “If I find they