This, Your Native Land

Most of the people in this Smithsonian Gallery are gone now. Certainly the American ethos is gone. But the past also has a past, and to many of these souls the 1940's was an awful, turbulent time. And it was, in many ways. The images are drawn from all over, from both coasts and everywhere in between. For the moment, politics has no place here. This is all of us, and what we are....all races, nationalities and origins.

Southington, Connecticut. May, 1942