& NOW SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: RICHARD MERKIN, GLORIA SWANSON AND WILLIAM GADDIS

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One of our most popular series here at the blog.....click on the photos and links. AND NOW... SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: RICHARD MERKIN, GLORIA SWANSON AND WILLIAM GADDIS,

FIRST UP, CROTON'S RICHARD MERKIN (Richard Marshall Merkin (1938 – September 5, 2009)--an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity as a professional dandy.  He died at his home in Croton after a long illness.   One of the elves stumbled upon this fab post on MERKIN entitled RICHARD MERKIN: THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER by Alan Flusser; you can read it at  https://alanflusser.com/musings-from-alans-desk/richard-merkin

YOU CAN SEE SOME EXAMPLES OF MERKIN'S WORK HERE. 

NEXT---As many of you know, Gloria Swanson one of Croton's most notable residents.  You can read more about her Croton connection here.

Click on the image to see an amazing trading card featuring Swanson from Lloyd's Cigarettes.

For those who don't know: Cigarette, cigar and chocolate companies often produced trading cards with their products.  These card sets document popular culture from the turn of the century, often depicting the period's actresses, costumes, and sports, as well as offering insights into mainstream humour and cultural norms.

This image comes to you courtesy of FLICKR'S "CIGCARDPIX"; you can see another great shot of Swanson from his stream by clicking here  AND HERE.

AND ANOTHER NOTE, YOU CAN SEE THE CROTON DAM ON A WILLS CIGARETTE CARD HERE. 

And finally, just finished A FROLIC OF HIS OWN by William Gaddis.

As many of you know, novelist William Gaddis was a village resident in the 1960's.

For those who don't know,....William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.  Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers.  READ MORE ABOUT HIM HERE.

A FROLIC OF HIS OWN IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON HERE. 

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF....SOME MORE RECENTLY UNEARTHED BITS & PIECES ABOUT CROTON NOTABLES: RALPH WALDO TRINE, LENORE ULRIC AND PETER STRAUSS at https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2022/03/now-some-more-recently-unearthed-bits_23.html

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