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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: October 28, 2009
Caption: Jackson Comes Home Marker
Additional Description: June 20, 1962 Dear Miss Crockett:
I have your interesting letter of the 6th with appreciation of Brookgreen and I am glad you know the gardens.
Your suggestion of Andrew Jackson as a young man growing up among the rural activities of a small frontier town, is the only side of his life that appeals to me as a sculptor, as well as the interest the children seem to have in the project.
A picture came to mind as I read over your letter and I have tried out the composition. I have Jakcson as a young man of sixteen or seventeen seated bareback on a farm horse, one hand leaning back on the horse's rump and looking off over his native hills, to wonder wonder what the future holds for him.
Its a quiet composition but think has possibilities.
When I get the model further developed I will send you a small snap shot to see what you think but it would be some years before it could be developed as I have other works promised.
With best wishes
Sincerely,
Anna H. Huntington
Submitted: October 28, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p82553
File Size: 1.491 Megabytes

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