When I first saw this little gem (original print is something like 1″ x 1″) the only thing I really noticed was the ship and that it seemed to have been forced to run ashore. I imagine the night before there was a nasty storm, and as the saying goes…

And so the questions begin. Did the two boys just happen upon the beach to find the cargo ship from…where? Africa? Italy? Greece? I can’t see any flag, was it lowered on purpose? Was this common or the event everyone in the village talked about for years afterward? How did the ship end up there and did it ever manage to pull itself out? Was an ancestor of Joseph Hazelwood at the helm?

But my favorite question has to do with the photographer. Where was that train headed?

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