SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror I did learn that the

I did learn that the use of train whistles seems to have originated in England in 1832

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SOLD Uncle Sam's New Buildings, Bangor Maine, Hand-stitched Antique Pencil Drawing carved folk art mirror I did learn that theI really love how Vernon E. Leighton stitched two ruled pages together in order to fully capture all of Uncle Sam's new buildings in Bangor Maine, which he did quite wonderfully I think, with careful attention to all the windows and doors, down to the the tassels and loops hanging from the shades in the bay windows of the house. A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer, with works including "A Soldier's Dream," published