Join me on a visit to the Cheekwood Mansion’s Morning Room, where next to a large marble fireplace and mirror hangs the realistic landscape painting titled Sunset in the Arctic, painted by American artist William Bradford in the early 1870s.
The Call of the Sea: An Essay
The oceans and the age of sail is a fascinating time that captured my young imagination on the first pages of Stevenson's Treasure Island, and the first time I read Melville's opening words, "Call me Ishmael."
