Lovelace Drugstore, Downtown Ocean Springs....Oil painting.....#12 of 30 paintings in 30 days

 

12x24.....oil on Canvas.....$340

 

This is from my hometown of Ocean Springs, MS.  Lovelace drugs is a fixture in the downtown area.  I remember sitting in front of Lovelace's under the oak tree in high school and having a bake sale for the Paper Staff.  I met a wonderful older gentleman that I went on to interview for the paper.  He paraphrased this Longfellow poem and I have always remembered it.....

 

"I often think of the little town,

seated beside the sea

and in my dreams stroll up and down

the pleasant streets of the dear old town

and my youth comes back to me."