Sweet Old Folk Art House From Farm in Bethel, Maine toy perhaps in school or at

perhaps in school or at summer camp

Povungnituk

and housed in the Russian cigarette pack they came in

It opens smoothly and closes tight

is written on the pocket of his rucksack

Sweet Old Folk Art House From Farm in Bethel, Maine toy perhaps in school or atThis charmer of a folk art house I know came from the Stanley Roberts Farm in Bethel Maine, retrieved by a fabulous woman named Verna, who sold it to me, along with a few other treasures from the same estate. The house is made of crate wood, with glass for the windows (inset into carved niches visible on the interior) painted with black crosses for windows and bordered on the bottom with black painted bits of wood. The dark red along the bottom