Author: Elizabeth Gleason

  • Happy Veteran’s Day

    Happy Veteran’s Day

    An editorial cartoon in the Jamestown Post-Journal in the 1950s.

  • Winter Flight Sketch

    Winter Flight Sketch

    View A Winter Flight’s Painting

  • A Day of Fishing

    A Day of Fishing

    There is a quiet kind of storytelling in A Day of Fishing—the kind that doesn’t ask for attention, but rewards those who linger. In this painting, Merrill Coffin captures a familiar rural moment: a covered bridge spanning calm water, autumn grasses bending toward the stream, and two figures pausing at…

  • Highschool Pictures

    Senior Pictures from the Jamestown Highscool Yearbook from 1942

  • The Finish Line

    The Finish Line

    Jamestown Post-Journal Cartoon 1950s“I told you the finish line was too strong”

  • Alice

    Alice Loves To Cook For Unexpected Guests

  • Autumn Remnants

    Autumn Remnants

    Merrill Coffin’s “Autumn Remnants” presents a striking still life against a stark white background, drawing the eye to the carefully arranged objects that tell a story of time and tradition. The centerpiece is a cluster of vibrant Indian corn, its earthy tones of red, gold, and brown contrasting sharply with…

  • Stump Talk

    Stump Talk

    A Quiet Conversation in the Woods: Stump Talk (2003) In Stump Talk (2003), Merrill Coffin invites us into a fleeting, almost private moment in the natural world. Two blue jays perch atop a freshly cut tree stump, facing one another as if mid-conversation. Their bodies lean slightly inward, attentive and…

  • The Doe

    Christmas Gift to Thomas and Julie Coffin December 1996

  • The Buck and The Doe