Musical accompaniment: Got My Mojo Working by Ann Cole. It’s criminal that so few people have ever heard of Ann Cole. What a voice she had!

This 1914 photograph by August Sander is called Jungbauern (Young Farmers) in Westerwald, a mountainous region in western Germany. Look how sharp they look!

I hope canes will make a comeback. Some people need them but they’ve often been used as an accessory.  They give a person a look of distinction.

Hood Museum at Dartmouth University