Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Art Gallery: Davy and the B'ar.

Here's another of Davy's Somerville puzzles. Davy claims he wasn't aiming to hurt this bear. He just wanted to trim the hair in his ears, and the old fellow was ticklish. But seeing how Davy's autobiography (available now at Amazon and other fine book dealers) says he once killed 105 bears in a six-month period, I'm not entirely convinced.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Art Gallery: Davy visits the Alamo

Davy likes puzzles. Yeah, most of the ones he likes are kids' puzzles, but he had very little schooling, so you can do the math. Still, once he puts them together they look great framed and gracing the walls of our editorial offices. This one, made by the Somerville company, finds our hero striking a noble and thoughtful pose in Alamo Plaza, somewhere between the time Texas joined the Union and the plaza was paved to accommodate snowcone stands. Look close, and you'll spy pieces shaped like a bell, a saber and a flintlock pistol.