White Trash Art

American Heroes and Madmen #11: Annie Edson Taylor

acrylic on canvas paper 12x16"

Annie was an educated, well traveled Civil War widow who had spent the many years after her husband's death going from vocation to vocation. Nearing old age and wanting to secure a nice retirement income for herself, she agreed to go over Niagara Falls in a specially designed barrel. She took the plunge on her 63rd birthday (although she told the papers she was 43) and became the first person to live through the feat. Her retirement plan of living off of the publicity that followed was cut short by her manager absconding with the barrel, which she traveled and posed with all over the country. After an unfruitful attempt to get the barrel back with the use of private detectives, she drained most of her savings on their fees. Sher spent her golden years working, as she always did, where she found a niche - as a clairvoyant and giving therapeutic magnet treatments.

When White Trash Collides

Just think of the babies they could've had. Happy birthday Dolly!

Build A Pontoon Bike

For my newest category, entitled "Arts & Crafts Bullshit" in honor of my manly-man boyfriend, and his pet name for my artwork: a pontoon bike, from Popular Mechanics Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia, Vol 1; copyright 1955.