1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles string repair with leafy curtain raking across

with leafy curtain raking across the frame in the other direction

Some old stains as evident in photos

but no chips or cracks that I can see

Just a beauty of a girl and a portrait I think

1492-1881, A Poetic History of America on a Ledger Page, with Doodles string repair with leafy curtain raking acrossThis page was salvaged from an old ledger in an overall state of disrepair and I think is really quite a poignant thing, making a sort of poetry of selected moments in American history as it distills them into a list of sorts, starting with 1776, then jumping back to 1492, then extending to 1881, which I believe is about when it was written. Year 1794 was trouble with an insurrection. Year 1812 saw a war with her once mother country. 1861 saw a bitter