Edward Cody Huddleston

By Edward Cody HuddlestonBaxley, Georgia, USA Rockwell’s art is as American as apple pieand Agent Orange! There’s nothing wasted in his work;each stroke is one of genius. One painting will make you nostalgic for a malt shopdriven out of business by McDonald’s before you were born.And the next? Well, the next reminds you that Ruby Bridges exists.And whoever wrote that on the wall behind her existed.And what made them what they were still existsin the laws of our nation, the fabric of our culture,and in our cities, wearing combat boots and balaclavas,as they drag children from their homes and throw…