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    Prague before and after the Iron Curtain

    Jack Ragland, Special to Village News|Updated Oct 28, 2020

    I visited Prague twice with the idea of painting some of those festive views of the city which had escaped the WWII bombs. The first time was during the Cold War, and our journey behind the Iron Curtain was a chilling and intimidating encounter with police holding machine guns to our throats. We visited later, after it became part of the Czech Republic, and had a marvelous time. I never painted anything from either trip, so I recently decided to paint the Old Charles Bridge...

  • A bright note in bleak COVID-19 times

    Jack Ragland, Special to Village News|Updated Jul 23, 2020

    I imagine many people have been using this down time to clear out clutter, recycle and reorganize if they tend to be savers (hoarders) like we are. Not long ago, I got a call out of the blue from Bruce Lee, a nephew by marriage to my first master painter teacher, "Smoke Tree George" or "Smokie" Frederick. This call led to a different kind of reorganizing, bringing up old memories. I met Smokie, when I was 16, in the Grand Canyon where he was showing and selling his paintings....