Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901) was a Canadian-born New England
oil painter of the American Barbizon school. He and his wife Christiana
were active in the African-American abolitionist community in Boston.
Bannister won first prize for his art at the 1876 Philadelphia
Centennial Exhibition and was a founding member of the Providence Art
Club and the Rhode Island School of Design. His style and pastoral
subjects were influenced by Jean-François Millet and the French
Barbizon school. He also looked to the seaside for inspiration for his
often experimental and Idealistic use of color and atmosphere. He worked
as a photographer and portraitist before progressing to landscapes. His
style fell out of favor later in his life; he and Christiana moved out
of College Hill in Providence to Boston and then a smaller house in
Providence. He was overlooked after his death in 1901, until the
National Museum of African Art and others returned him to national
attention in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mitchell_Bannister>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the
Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as
many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway
accident (wreckage pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Hilaire_train_disaster>
1967:
Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their
driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her
children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield>
1995:
Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the
Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_program>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jaggery:
1. A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap
which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other
types of unrefined sugar.
2. (by extension) A small-scale production plant that processes sugar
cane to make sugar.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jaggery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our nation is preserved by those who abide by their oaths to our
Constitution. Our nation is preserved by those who know the fundamental
difference between right and wrong.
--Liz Cheney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney>