Tuesday, February 3, 2015
![Composer Felix Mendelssohn](pix/mendelssohn-felix5.jpg)
[1809 - (Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy), composer, born in Hamburg, Germany]
![Presidential Candidate Horace Greeley](pix/greeley-horace2.jpg)
[1811 - Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, politician, born in Amherst, New York]
![Writer Gertrude Stein](pix/stein-gertrude7.jpg)
[1874 - Gertrude Stein, writer, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania]
![Artist & Illustrator Norman Rockwell](pix/rockwell-norman-self.jpg)
[1894 - Norman Rockwell, artist, illustrator, born in New York City]
![Writer James A. Michener](pix/michener-james2.jpg)
[1907 - James A. Michener, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania]
![Comedian Joey Bishop](pix/bishop-joey.jpg)
[1918 - Joey Bishop (Gottlieb), comedian, actor, born in the Bronx]
![Packer Halfback Elijah Pitts scoring Super-Bowl I TD](pix/pitts-elijah-super-bowl.jpg)
[1938 - Elijah Eugene Pitts, Green Bay Packers running back, born in Mayflower, Arkansas]
[1944 - U.S. troops capture the Marshall Islands]
![Klaus Fuchs ID badge](pix/fuchs-klaus_id_badge.jpg)
[1950 - Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing
atomic bomb information to Soviets]
An artist creates works that may not be appreciated during his or her lifetime, or ever.
An artisan produces things that work, and that are immediately useful.
Clearly, in a society that values things, it is safer to be an artisan than an artist.