Dear Falter Fans,
Everyone at the Falter Museum hopes you all had a very happy, relaxing and safe Labor Day weekend!
The museum will remain closed throughout July, but we will do our best to accommodate visitors who want to visit. Call Dobey at least a day ahead to schedule an appointment. She can be reached at 402-450-3724.
Thank you for your continued support of the Falter Museum.
Take care and be safe,
Dobey
This newsletter’s featured cover:
“Blacksmith”
Adopted By: Mary Jane Weinert
The smith is still a mighty man, but the village smithy no longer stands beneath the spreading chestnut tree.
These days the smith is likely to be motorized. His forge is on a trailer, and when horses need shoeing, the blacksmith does the work on the farm, the shoes making a fine jingle as the trailer comes up the lane.
It's one instance of the auto serving the horse. The blacksmith in John Falter's painting is Wilmer Benner, who operates in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Falter lives. Benner comes from a long line of smiths: his father, grandfather, great-great grandfather and great-grandfather were blacksmiths before him. Falter sketched Benner at work on the neighboring farm owned by Paul Mosser.
July 13, 1946
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