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"The Sunbury Stump"
From a 20"x30" Acrylic on Canvas
This painting is based on a true story from Allie Allison. The Air Mail Service used to pay farmers and land owners subsidies to keep a field or
two clear for use as emergency strips. These strips were all over because the guys had to land a LOT. This is a true story of an emergency strip on one of the islands in the Susquehanna river in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. The farmer's strip had an old tree stump right in the landing path of the planes. When the pilots would make it in O.K. they would raise heck with the farmer who would just say "One of these days I'll have to get around to removing that." According to Mr. Allison, he finally did.
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