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Downtown Lewisport
Artist - William Fitzpatrick
The following tribute to Lewisport was taken from a scrapbook of the late William Chambers, Lewisport. It is an article written by Thomas St. Clair Lowe, who became a resident of Lewisport in 1855. Residents of Lewisport still feel the same love to their home today.
"Reader, turn your eye to a little village on the Ohio River and view it as it appeared to me on the 4th of July, 1855, the day I landed there. It was a bright morning and the beautiful and placid stream, gliding quietly by might well make one believe that the inhabitants of the village were inspired with so lovely and gently an influence as that which nature here on every beautiful day presented to the eye."
"I was charmed with the prospect and hope present to my fancy a quiet and prosperous and happy life, in this place surrounded with abundantly resources for prosperity. A rich and abundantly yielding soil, adapted to almost every variety of agricultural farming. Valuable mineral land and honest and noble hearted yeomanry, who plowed yearly out of the ground a vast abundance of substance and large quantities of product easily converted into gold. Here, thought I, as I look musingly upon the scene, is the Oasis in the desert of life that I have long sighed for!"
A more eloquent tribute to a community could not be found than this written by Mr. Lowe.
Text is from the 'Hancock 29' booklet edited by Robert A. Powell ©1979
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William Fitzpatrick of Paducah, Kentucky
Fitzpatrick's success in painting for the past eighteen years have been in depictions of perspectives - buildings, street scenes, figures, etc. Following his schooling in draftmanship, he worked for an engineering firm in Detroit, Michigan.
His works have won awards throughout the midwest, notably an award for his "Iron Front Store" at the Mid-South Exhibition in Memphis, Tenn.
Text is from the 'Hancock 29' booklet edited by Robert A. Powell ©1979
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