Twentieth Century motoring greatly expanded opportunities for picnicking by allowing anyone to enjoy the freedom of the road. Fords were ubiquitous cars, and in this advertisement, they reinforced their dominance by claiming, “Wherever you live—in town or...
Raucat’s The Honourable Picnic begins during hanami in and “Through all its length, the lane of cherry trees was an inspiring picture. Great trees all rosy and white as far as you could see, more brilliant than you would ever imagine. They fairly burn your...
The Flüela Falls picnic is staged in May, a traditional month of spiritual renewal, but in this instance, Pieter Peeperkorn plans to announce his impending suicide. Peppercorn has invited his closest friends at the tuberculosis sanitarium in Davos: Hans Castorp,...
Dreiser’s picnic is hellish. It’s an expression of his dark view of humanity, like Zola’s proposition that when people succumb to the “fatalities of their flesh,” they are, and a sordid picnic is the “cataclysmic” center of An...
The Boating Party is motivated by state-instigated propaganda to boost a failing economy and patriotic spirits. Here, Gerasimov extolls Soviet agricultural abundance during a period when it was failing. The robust women enjoy a picnic in a rowboat chock-a-block with...
When Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton stop for lunch while trout fishing on the Irrazy River, it looks like a picnic. Whether it’s a lunch or a picnic doesn’t matter because it’s when Hemingway chooses to reveal Jake Barnes’ spiritual disquietude...
Vidor’s picnic in La Bohème narrates the critical moment when Mimi and Rodolpho fall in love. It’s absent from the screenplay’s sources: Puccini’s opera La Bohème and Henri Muger’s Scenes de la vie bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life). The legend tells that Her first...
According to Heyward, “It was the day set for the grand parade and picnic of “The Sons and Daughters of Repent Ye Saith the Lord,” and, with the first light of morning, Catfish Row had burst into a fever of preparation.” Expectations promise...
Shepard The original Pooh illustrations were line drawings and were not colorized until later. The area marked “Nice for picnicks” is at the top, slightly left of center. Shepard also illustrated Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1931) See E.H. Shepherd. Map...
Conrad Aiken’s “Strange Moonlight” (1925) is a moody picnic story. It’s an elegy on death seen through the eyes of an unnamed young boy, somewhere between nine and eleven years old, who is bewildering affected by the death of his dear friend...
