AN HONEST LIVING
“What is junk?” Ron Frederickson wants to know. A 12-year legal battle with Lee Township near Midland, Michigan has not provided an answer as the Frederickson family defends their livelihood against the township’s blight ordinance. This picture story documented the family-run salvage business that has kept its patriarch out of jail for eight years and allowed him to make an honest living. However, the township has threatened to come in by force and remove the cars that they strip down and recycle. “I’m going to fight. Somebody’s got to stand up for our rights,” Mr. Frederickson remarked about his situation.
Update: A settlement was agreed to between the family and Lee Township negating the forced clean-up. Sadly, 18 months after this story ran, the family home burned to the ground, and several months after that, their youngest son, Max (standing in final photo), was struck and killed by a car in front of their home. These tragic events sent Ron into a violent and drug fueled spiral landing him back in prison for several years.
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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.
In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.
Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.
As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.