In an upcoming Spy interview with Greg Zimmerman about the future of the site where the Talbot County Health Department is currently is located, he send along to us a remarkable painting of the same spot but almost 100 years earlier. It now hangs in the Maryland Room at the TAlbot County Free Library in Easton.
Sadly, no one at the Library, Talbot County Historical Society, nor the few art experts the Spy contacted over the last few weeks have any additional information about the artist or other circumstances related to this rare view of life on the Hill.
We would welcome any and call tips from the Spy readership to solve this puzzle.
Margaret Schnoor says
Is that the Hanson Street School, torn down in the Sixties.
Leona Schmidt says
Went to school there First grade to 4th grade then to Idlewild 5th and 6 then to high school 7-12. Played on the black top waiting for the bus. Lots of memories there.
Earle Asche says
my mother attended and graduated? from that school. it was the Hanson street school.
Alex says
This is a very good work of art. I’d be very careful with it.
Jim Rosenberg says
I don’t think it’s her, but it’s in the style of Ruth Starr Rose. Perhaps ask the folks at the Water’s Edge Museum in Oxford or the Main Street Gallery in Cambridge.
Frances Haley Duncan says
This is a painting of The Easton Elementary School
on Hanson Street. I went there for grades 1 through 6 with Mr. Arthur Wood as school principal. It had two floors of classrooms. The floors were connected by an old wooden, noisy stairway with steps sunken-in due to the numerous footsteps, and a large basement used as a cafeteria and several other ckassrooms. The picture depicts the playground probably at recess time. I have many nice memories of this school and its excellent teachers. It later became Talbot County Health Department and Social Services.