Saturday marked a special return for a local woman with a long history. Fairport’s own “Rosie the Riveter” was recently ...
A “Rosie” painted by the famed Norman Rockwell, which appeared on the cover of the May 29, 1943 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, was far more well-known by Americans at the time. That Rosie, ...
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Her impact extended beyond the war years, however ... It was this tune that inspired a Norman Rockwell painting that was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943.
Armstrong Williams reflects on Donald Trump’s impactful address to Congress, comparing it to a perfect game in baseball ...
The song inspired Norman Rockwell to paint a depiction of Kyser's Rosie for an issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell's painting was then used by the Treasury Department for war bond drives ...
More close calls came when, as the war reached a crescendo ... ‘Go home.’ Really, it was Norman Rockwell, leafy suburbs and all that kind of stuff. And so I would wonder, ‘Why do I have ...
After Norman Rockwell, America’s most popular illustrator ... to do what it took to bring down Adolf Hitler, and after the war, FDR’s expression of the Four Freedoms became inscribed in ...
And in my mind, all those tunes kind of live in that 1945 time when the war is ending.” She talked about Norman Rockwell’s paintings and how that idyllic story is how bluegrass songs live in ...