A world set apart

"When I started planning this book, I looked up the words 'memory painting' in a dictionary of art terms and was directed to 'mind's eye, ' the faculty of the mind to imagine or remember visual things. That is precisely what these paintingas are all about but I must add this caveat: none of them are about an actual place. They are all based on the reality of life as I knew it in the 1930s, but they came from my imagination."--Marcia Muth, page 7.