“This is a depiction of the first train to travel the route between Boston and Provincetown called the Highland Light. One blurry black and white photo remains of this train (traveling with no other cars but the engine and the coal car as seen here), but it was reputed to be very colorful by the locals at the time. This is a highly researched piece. The colors are based on descriptions written by local people along the railroad, as well as the company that built the train. The specific tone of the blue was narrowed down by comparison with another train built at the same time by the same company that has survived and is in a museum out west (Pennsylvania). This train carried people and supplies out from Boston, and carried sand back from Provincetown to Boston.”

“Who could resist this little guy, with the American flag bathing suit wandering around the edge of a sandbar? Worry not, Grandma was right there watching him like a hawk.”