"Maggie Ball" in the Desert Wearing Two Hats, Striking Old Snapshot of Indigenous Woman folk art hanger The origin of the phrase

The origin of the phrase "Damn the Torpedoes" comes from the Battle of Mobile Bay in Alabama

and which used to be blue

(I'm also happy to paint the base black--or another color for that matter

which can easily be cleaned off with very light surface scraping to the corners

As Herman Hesse wrote in the introduction to this edition (in translation):

"Maggie Ball" in the Desert Wearing Two Hats, Striking Old Snapshot of Indigenous Woman folk art hanger The origin of the phraseQuite a amazing figure this indigenous woman cuts, between her two hats stacked tall, the wonderful mix of fabrics and garments and patterns covering her body, and most of all her striking, proud, life and desert weathered looking face, several front teeth missing. The hand written note on reverse names her as Maggie Ball and describes her shrewdness in finding things for nothing, which sounds like resourcefulness to me! It also notes that on the day