Friday, June 5, 2009

So who is this Wallace Nutting character?

This quirky, New England minister-turned-entrepreneur built a Martha Stewart-style enterprise in the early nineteen hundreds selling a vision of the past. His romantic—but not always accurate—notions persist today.

He is famous for claiming “everything new is bad.”

This post is pilfered from Accent Magazine.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I own a few of his hand colored photos. All are rather saccharin celebrations of predictable scenes.