As I write this Sunday evening I am only aware of two serious crimes this weekend; A Hispanic male beaten and robbed by a reported gang of 15 African-American youths early Saturday and a dead body found Sunday morning. Both episodes happened north of the railroad tracks on West Front St. area.

Plainfield's violent crime rate must be the highest of any New Jersey community. Yet, we are not told what new counter-crime efforts are being used. One can not expect any economic development to be meaningful under the present circumstances.

While we wait for more info, here is the final 3 of my JAMA people covers;

The first one Tamana Squaw and Dog (1939) an Alaskan native painted by Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969) an ordained Episcopalian Priest who spent years in Cordova Alaska a typical frontier town of the wild west character.


Years ago, long beyond recall, my wife and I took our grand daughter to see the original production of Sunday in the Park with George staring Bernadette Peters. There was a recent revival a few years ago which my son saw. The musical was based on a painting "La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat (1859-1891)click This painting "The Gardner"(1882) was one of some 38 preliminary paintings in oil he made to study light and color effects for his masterpiece.

The final cover in this group is a Self Portrait (1898) by an American painter; Abbott Henderson Thayer (1849-1921) a naturalist who study wildlife camouflage coloration. He too suffered from depression

As I noted previously , further information about the artists can be found in Wikipedia, There is a link to click on for Seurat to the articled in JAMA which can be enlarged by clicking on it