Harvest Moon Ball

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Here is a scene remembering the good old times when folks still knew their neighbors. Word traveled quickly—barn dance tonight. The location changed, but the magic of the message vibrated across the farm country. Men talked about crops and prices and politics. Women discussed their kitchen kingdoms, home-making, and child-rearing. The kids, well, they just played endlessly. In "Harvest Moon Ball," Terry Redlin captures a rural midwest American tradition with all its color, excitement, and bustling activity.

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My mother was Helen Hess. Her brother was Francis Hess and she sang in his orchestra when she was in high school in Clark SD. She had told me about this painting several years ago. We saw it in the Watertown museum and it was just as she described it.
Sheila Gottsleben`