The Sugar Shack, Arlington Vermont. October 23, 2017.

I stopped at the Sugar Shack just north of Arlington Vermont. They have several grades of delicious maple syrup and lots of other goodies. They also have a Norman Rockwell museum with Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers. You can also buy small Rockwell reproductions.

We were having a nice visit and they learned I am a Norman Rockwell fan. They told me how to find his home and studio which was just a few miles from their store.

Don Fisher, one of the models for Norman Rockwell’s painting “Breaking Home Ties, 1954”

I was in the museum when they came to get me. They were very excited. Coincidentally, Don fisher had just walked into the store and they wanted me to meet him. He was one of the models that posed for Rockwell’s “Breaking Home Ties”. It was a Post cover in 1954.  Rockwell had his models pose while a photographer took pictures and Rockwell used those photographic studies as an aid in creating his paintings.

Don Fisher signing a print of Norman Rockwell’s painting “Breaking Home Ties”.  October 23, 2017.

We met and chatted. I bought a print of “Breaking Home Ties” and he signed it for me.  Just think, I met Fisher 63+ years after he posed as the young man in the painting.

Norman Rockwell’s painting “Breaking Home Ties, 1954”. Don Fisher posed as the young man in the suit, waiting at the train station.

“Breaking Home Ties, 1954”. Saturday Evening Post, September 25, 1954.