by Dan Grenard | Feb 6, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
There are only a handful of drawings and photographs of the ranch when the Felch family lived there. The drawing above by Loretta Bailey presents an inviting picture of Marshall, Amanda, Sadie, Ned, and Emerson getting the wagon packed on a lovely morning. The ranch...
by Dan Grenard | Jan 9, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
Grinders, Claws, Darwin, and Dinosaurs Paleontologists and geologists had a pretty solid understanding of our planets remarkable history by the mid 1800’s. This is lightly touched on in a background story called Grinders, Claws, Darwin, and Dinosaurs. The...
by Dan Grenard | Nov 25, 2018 | Marshall & Amanda
In 2018, the old Felch Ranch was put up for sale. JoAnn, being a realtor, had a client interested in seeing it. I tagged along because I had been wanting to help visualize where the old ranch sat in relation to the creek and where the historic spring sat on the...
by Dan Grenard | Aug 6, 2018 | Background and Places
The illustration above was painted by Beth Zaiken and is on display at the New York State Museum located at the southern end of the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany New York. Beth was contacted by the museum to create background murals for...
by Dan Grenard | Apr 15, 2018 | Background and Places
The image above illustrates the magnitude of the disdain and contempt Professors Cope and Marsh had for each other based on articles and headlines from the 1890 New York Herald. Developed by an Austrian artist on Deviant art identified...
