Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 steamboat ) The edges of the

) The edges of the hand-shape show old red paint

The painterly white head with mossy green yellow tipped beak is just glorious

with just a bit of wear to the interior

but now would make a wonderful little paper weight

with a great folkiness that animates and humanizes her in a wonderful way

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 steamboat ) The edges of theI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall