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Baby Vegetables Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman

This cartoon reminds me a little of Stephen King's new book, Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. It is one spooky read. 

Yet Another Bannerman Vampire Cartoon

And don't eat anything with garlic. To buy a print of the original, write Isy at Isabella2@optonline.net. 

Another Bannerman Vampire Cartoon

Kids never listen. To buy the original or a print, write Isy at Isabella2@optonline.net. Give it to someone as a treat. 

Bannerman Vampire Cartoon

Maybe he's a good vampire, like Edward in Twilight. To buy the original or print, write Isy at Isabella2@optonline.net

Bannerman Waitress Cartoon

To buy this cartoon, or a print of it, write Isy at isabella2@optonline.net. Give a copy to your favorite server this Halloween. 

"Shut Up and Drive" Bannerman Halloween Drawing For Sale

I'll be posting Halloween drawings by my wife, Isabella Bannerman, this week. You can purchase an original drawing, like the one above, for $150, or a signed print for $60. To order, write Isy at isabella2@optonline.net. 

Mobile Technology Witch Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman

Halloween is coming! See more Bannerman witch cartoons here. 

McKinley Monument, San Francisco

I ran across this monument in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (Baker Street between Oak and Fell). It is a frequent target of graffiti vandals and the city is going to put a fence around it. McKinley, the 25th U.S. President, was shot twice by anarchist Leon Cgolzosz in Buffalo, NY on September 6, 1901. He died on the 14th. While the treatment he received was sub-standard for the time—famed Buffalo surgeon Roswell Park was out of town in Niagara Falls—many believe his pancreatic necrosis was beyond the ability of medicine of the time. Incredibly, the residence McKinley died in, the Milburn House, was torn down in 1957 and turned into a Canisius High School parking lot. (There is now a Math and Science Building there.) A sign marks the location on Delaware Avenue. McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music during the Pan American Exposition. The site, now a grassy median on Fordham Drive, has a small marker. Buffalo has an enormous McKinley Monument in Niagara Square across from City Hall. The monument in San Francisco by Robert Ingersoll Aitken is smaller but beautifully designed.

San Francisco's Hidden Gold Star Mothers Memorial

In a hard-to-find grove in Golden Gate Park, my sons and I found this beautiful memorial stone to "sons and daughters" lost in World War I. Surprisingly, I could find no signage directing one to it. Look for it in the Heroes Grove, which is opposite the de Young Museum between Kennedy Drive and Fulton Street. I asked several park employees where it was. They had never heard of it. My great grandmother, Sara Curry, was a WWI Gold Star Mother from Plains, PA. You can pick up her story here.

Nancy Rubin Canoe Sculpture Outside the Albright-Knox

Mom and Dad next to a Nancy Rubin sculpture, properly titled: Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Monochrome I, Built to Live Anywhere, at Home Here. It is 60-feet high and fabulous.