Sunday, June 25, 2006
CURTAIN CALL
We had one of these in my school when I was a kid.
The Curtain Rises on Old Vermont
Ours was of a mountain stream. I probably stared at it more than any other picture for the full 12 years I went to school in that building.
Yes, my home town was so small we had a consolidated school. All 12 grades in one building; six to a floor.
The mountain stream fit the countryside. No covered bridges for us.
At the bottom the curtain said 'Asbestos', in rather large letters, spoiling one's suspension of disbelief around the painting.
It was a 'roll' curtain. You pulled it up and it rolled itself around a spindle. Down, and it unrolled.
I think that these were fairly common. Vermont may be trying to be a little special when it is not.
But good for them for restoring theirs.
God only knows where 'my' curtain is other than in my memory.
