Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and Main Street tableaus flicker

and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

where blue-coated men posed against the Tennessee River's sweep — the camera catching soldiers who would soon march into the smoke at Missionary Ridge

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

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Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and Main Street tableaus flickerWoodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 a fraternal portrait of Joseph Cullen Root, founder of the order whose carved tree tombstones would soon dot American cemeteries from Omaha to the Carolinas, rendered with the solemn ornament that lodge culture demanded of its patriarchs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the