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Month: November 2024

Take What You Need: Exploring Winslow Homer’s “Chestnutting” and Foraging throughout the United States

In Winslow Homer’s print Chestnutting, a group of children climb up and shake down a chestnut tree in rural New England, collecting the falling burs in an outstretched blanket. Printed in 1870, this image depicts a time when foraging was…

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