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"Thanksgiving Flute Performance"
ADOPTED BY CATHY FALTER
IN MEMORY OF JOHN W. & CATHERINE DOVEY
To begin with, the cover is by John Falter, and the setting is Atchison, Kansas. The man slumped in the red chair in the center of the room is John Falter's uncle, whose name also is John Falter. This is the home of a man named Bob Noll, and he is the only man who isn't here. The picture on the wall is from another house, and to leave you even further confused, the happy family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner is not a family. The people gathered here don't even know one another, and many of them never have been in the house where they are gathered. Falter thought these various friends of his looked like a family, and he painted them into a family. The woman clearing the table--in Atchison--is Falter's aunt. She was in New York at the time.
November 30, 1946
The Falter Museum staff wishes you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving.
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