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This is a quick snapshot of the exhibit of the Sturtevant ledger, opened to the page showing the ship drawing “John Adams;” it is an example of Maine folk art now on display at the Maine State Museum.  A Seth Sturtevant, who ended up in Sumner, Maine, near the end of the 1700s penned this “Book of Accompis.” The actual drawing is in ink and watercolor and there are no other drawings in his ledger.

This is considered more art than scholarship because this is a drawing of no known ship; the frigate “John Adams” did not exist during the American Revolution, the time period referred to in the drawing. It has been suggested that his actual inspiration came from the U.S. Navy ship, “Warren.”

Above is my extraction and manipulation of the ship image from the original file image shown at the beginning of this post; after cropping, adjusting for perspective, and applying image “shearing,” a rectangular presentation of the drawing is created almost as if the image was captured straight on. Some lighting contrast and coloring completes the recreation, although clarity and focus are lost.

I am planning to post this and additional photos in a new “museum” blog.

As promised, we have swappd out “themes,” a.k.a. designs/layouts, for this site; this particular layout has rotating header images; this will require some poking through the image file for suitable candidates.  There are a few tweaks and some of my content has to be re-created or copied over from the previous design layout.  I also will be moving some of the posts to my other blog, NCWYT.

We are working on re-arranging our blog portfolio; a blog at ncwyt.wordpress.com called “NCWYT” or No one Cares What You Think, will become the on-line comment site for any sort of blathering to my people.  This blog (blogJOG)  will be re-done, design-and-layout-wise, and will provide updates on my projects.

We will be catching up on our blog for the Smithfield Plantation and working on a web site using the Wordpress blog software for the annual Kiwanis Club auction.