A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born […] The post A 1937 painting went viral over a "smartphone" in the frame — historians say it's a mirror appeared first on American Almanac .
A Depression-era mural depicting colonial Massachusetts has reignited online time-travel conspiracy theories after viewers claimed an Indigenous man in the painting appears to hold a modern smartphone, though a historian identified the object as a European trade mirror years ago. The painting, Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, was completed in 1937 by Italian-born artist Umberto Romano, who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is one of six New Deal-era murals depicting the city's history. The scene shows English colonist William Pynchon, Springfield's founder, trading with members of the Pocumtuc tribe in western Massachusetts during the 1630s. In the foreground, a Native man holds a small, flat, rectangular object and…Open
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Robby Soave gives his radar on Providence lawmakers calling for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, the woman who was fatally stabbed on a train in Charlotte last year. #IrynaZarutska #Mural #RobbySoave
Robby Soave gives his radar on Providence lawmakers calling for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, the woman who was fatally stabbed on a train in Charlotte last year. #IrynaZarutska #Mural #RobbySoave About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on social media:…
