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Falling into Winter, Painted Pony Pull by A Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Falling into Winter
30 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas  

SOLD Painted Pony Signature Pull  

 ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie    

Hoover's Hills

Terry and I were watching the morning news with all the latest coverage of the Wall Street protestors and he said it reminded him of Hoover's Hills.

Okay, so I didn't know who or what Hoover's Hills were.

Back in 1932 as the great Depression pressed the American people, the veterans that had served in the war had been promised extra pay but the contract was for bonus money in 1945.  Here were these veterans starving and unemployed, basically destitute.

These men were promised $1.25 for each day  they served over seas and $1 a day for each day they served here in the states.   They were dubbed the BONUS ARMY as they set up camp across the river from the Capital at Anacostia Flats. They built their shelters out of whatever they had or could find.  Discipline in the camp was good but residents feared the growing numbers.  They only wanted their due pay to feed their families and to
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