We spent the weekend in the Berks, so I decided to fly fish the Housatonic River. It flows behind the museum of Norman, the pinnacle of American illustration, Rockwell.
    
    
    
     
	
    
    
    
    
   
	
	
   	 
	
	
    
    
    
    Rockwell's studio	
	
 
	
	
	
    
    
    
    
    
     He produced thousands of works, many of which were oil on canvas, including the sentimental covers for the Saturday Evening Post magazine	
           
 Home for Christmas
	
    
    
    
    	Home for Christmas, painted in '67, depicts the winter holiday season in small town New England, specifically Stockbridge, Massachusetts
		
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Sport captures the persistence of man, fishing in the rain
	
 
	
    
    
9°, wading in the Housy, with the wind blustering like the blazes, and no, the trout were not rising
	
 
	
	
    
    
        
	
    
    
    
    
    
    
    	  
	
	
    
    
    
    
	
    
    
    
    	Mission House, Stockbridge, circa 1742
	
 
	
	
    
    
    
    
Berkshire stream
	 
