Falter Fans,
Hello, loyal fans! We hope this newsletter finds you all doing well and enjoying your summer!
We wanted to reach out to first send a big thank you to all of those who have generously donated so far year:
Mike Collet
Randy Lukasiewicz
Shannon Falter
Ron & Nancy Kelley
Amalia LaViolette
Zak Stefaniak
Also, thanks to the numerous visitors who have stopped by the museum and donated. We are grateful and appreciative of you all. Thank you, all!
Our summer hours will continue through Labor Day weekend, so if you are in town or are planning a trip, please stop by and see us! Just a friendly reminder, those hours are Fridays & Saturdays from 1 to 4 pm and we are available for scheduled visits on Wednedays, Thursdays & Sundays, again between the hours of 1 and 4 pm. To schedule a visit, please contact Dobey at 402-450-3724 or you can email her at curator@johnphilipfaltermuseum.com
One final order of business, our museum will be closed for the annual Cobblestone Festival weekend, August 19th and 20th.
Whether you’re finishing up with summer rec baseball, readying for a family vacation, enjoying time on the golf course, or enjoying any of the numerous summer activities, we hope life is treating you all well!
Have a great rest of your summer and hope to see you at the museum!
From all of us at the John Philip Falter Musuem,
Cheers!
The John P. Falter illustration included in this newsletter was published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on August 14, 1948.
“Surf Swimming” was adopted by Kevin and Janet Malone.
The following is an excerpt that accompanied the illustration:
“Artist John Falter’s setting for his surf-bathing cover is Ogunquit, Maine. He made his first sketches while spending his summer in Maine, beating the heat, but didn’t get around to painting until last winter. By that time the lucky lad was in Phoenix, Arizona, beating the cold. The hotter that Arizona sun got, the more fondly the artist thought of Maine’s cool air and cool spray. So he hired a couple of pretty models for the girls in the lower right, and went to work on a picture of Maine as he remembered in the Southwest. The pretty girl in the left foreground, just emerging and shaking out her hair, ofter appears in Falter’s cover paintings, but doesn’t get a model’s pay for her work. She is Margaret Falter, John’s wife.”
