Mt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground framed bball art for the empire it did

for the empire it did not yet know it wanted

marble cornices catching the afternoon light

its looping prisoners traced in the spidery ink of an ephemeris

the kind of civic devotional printed when the post-war nation was busy stitching its founders back into a single

the kind a young hitter wears when the swing still belongs to him alone

Mt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground framed bball art for the empire it didMt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground arrives in orchard rows blooming white across the valley floor, the Columbia's tributary cutting green through apple and pear country, and Hood itself rising glacier bright above it all a working agricultural paradise of packing sheds and blossom festivals cataloged in linen and lithographed postcards from the early twentieth century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great