American Gothic

American Gothic is the name of a famous painting by Grant Wood.  As he was driving around Iowa, he saw an interesting house and endeavored to paint a picture of not only the house, but the people he envisioned might live in it.  The painting is now in the Art Institute of Chicago.  To me it is a very odd painting.  The upstairs window does not seem to go with the house.  Furthermore, the people look so gloomy, sad, and long-faced.  The man with the pitchfork represents the mid-west work ethic and the woman models a prim and proper farmer's wife or daughter.

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Tricia and I decided to have some fun.  We're not from the Mid-west and I don't have a 3 pronged pitchfork, but we do have a manure-scooping pitchfork, and my Mom just bought me some new overalls, so we decided to do our own American Gothic.  

But we couldn't be serious for long.  We do want to be hard-working and resolute, but we want to have fun and laugh and find humor in all situations as well.

While hopefully we don't look like the characters in the original painting, we do hope that we have the traditional rural values that the subjects in the painting.  Yeehaw!