“JOY IN THE JOURNEY”
Family History Folk Art Montage by artist Christine Clarkson Kelly
SHARE and PRESERVE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
by purchasing a copy of this beautiful 10″ x 72″ oil painting along with a companion book featuring your family!
Click on the painting above to show the incredible detail illustrating 600 years of American families: the arrival of your ancestors in “America the Beautiful” by ship across the Atlantic– from the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria in the 1400s to the Mayflower in the 1600s and the immigrant ships into the nineteenth century; United States history represented by George Washington crossing the Delaware River in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War soldiers in the 1860s, as well as the landmarks in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. “Joy in the Journey” includes America’s religious history showing the Pilgrims, Protestant churches, Catholic cathedrals, and the LDS Church from the Hill Cumorah in New York to the tops of the mountains in Salt Lake City. You can see the Western migration as people traveled on horseback, in covered wagons and by train. From log cabins and ranch houses to beautiful modern homes that resemble those of your own family. The history of aircraft is included along with all branches of the military and vignettes highlighting our shared heritage of freedom and individual achievement.
CREATE YOUR OWN:
I would like to help you preserve the JOY IN YOUR JOURNEY through art and an heirloom book. You can 1) order a personalized copy of the painting for your own home or to give as a gift to parents, children, and grandchildren; and 2) you can provide me with the information to create your heirloom book chronicling your family’s story. Just go to www.JoyInMyJourney.com for ordering details. The bound booklet is 8 1/2 x 11 inches with the name of your family on the cover. It contains up to 30 pages of stories, maps and colored pictures. Just imagine what your book will include, what memories you have to share, what stories you can tell . . . and together we can create a family treasure.
You can send the stories of your family, parents, grandparents, and loved ones; the things you want others to know and remember. Gather some of your favorite photographs; include pictures of individuals, homes, reunions, trips, weddings and other moments you don’t want to forget. Send a pedigree chart, or a map of the country your family originated from. I will then create your book to accompany your painting! To order the painting or contact me regarding the creation of your family book please go to www.JoyInMyJourney.com.
DETAILS ABOUT “JOY IN THE JOURNEY”
The following is a brief description of each part of the montage above. More detailed explanations will be available soon at www.JoyInMyJourney.com.
1. LIGHTHOUSE OF THE LORD symbolizing a “beacon of faith, hope and direction.”
2. NIÑA, PINTA AND THE SANTA MARIA as Christopher Columbus arrived in America 1492.
3. SHIP of our ancestors arriving in America from Germany.
4. SHIP of our ancestors arriving in America from England.
5. STATUE OF LIBERTY on Ellis Island.
6. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE
7. MISSION HOME.
8. MAYFLOWER, PILGRIMS AND INDIANS arriving November 21, 1620
9. PILGRIM ROCK ON CLARK’S ISLAND IN PLYMOUTH HARBOR
10. PILGRIM MEMORIAL MONUMENT
11. GEORGE WASHINGTON “Crossing the Delaware” and the BRITISH RED COATS in the Revolutionary War 1776.
12. CIVIL WAR with the Union and Confederate soldiers 1862-1865.
13. EDWARD HUNTER SEMINARY in Pennsylvania 1829-1842.
14. SHIP of our ancestors arriving in America from Ireland.
15. SHIP of our ancestors arriving from Scandinavia.
16. ANCESTRAL HOME in Virginia 1700s
17. ST. PETERS EPISCOPAL PARISH
18. ANCESTRAL HOME AND CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
19. UNITED STATES CAPITOL, Washington DC
20. GRISTMILL, HOME and U.S. POST OFFICE
21. BETSY ROSS HOUSE where the first American flag was made for the 13 colonies.
22. CARPENTER HALL at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1770.
23. INDEPENDENCE HALL and LIBERTY BELL in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
24. CHRISTS CHURCH – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
25. Mennonites and Quakers.
26. ANCESTRAL HOME OF__________
27. MONUMENT OF JOSEPH STANDING.
28. THE SACRED GROVE at Palmyra, New York.
29. HILL CUMORAH with the “Moroni Monument”
30. PETER AND MARY WHITMER HOME -The Church of Jesus Christ was organized here in April 6 1830.
31. SUSQUEHANNA RIVER
32. KIRTLAND TEMPLE at Kirtland, Ohio, 1836.
33. FARM HOME.
34. BLACKSMITH SHOP.
35. ANCESTRAL HOME
36. ANCESTRAL HOME
37. NAUVOO MANSION HOUSE
38. NAUVOO TEMPLE dedicated May 1, 1846.
39. LIBERTY JAIL in Liberty, Missouri.
40. CARTHAGE JAIL in Carthage, Illinois.
41. HANDCART COMPANIES, 1856 -1859.
42. WAGON COMPANIES TRAVELING to the WEST.
43. TRAVEL BY MOTOR VEHICLES
44. TRAVEL BY COVERED WAGONS
45. TRAVEL BY RIVER AND STEAM BOAT
46. TRAVEL BY RAILROAD
47. ENSIGN PEAK in Salt Lake City, Utah.
48. SALT LAKE TABERNACLE.
49. SALT LAKE TEMPLE – 40 years to build – 1853-1893.
50. UTAH STATE CAPITOL.
51. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
52. FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY, the largest in the world.
53. GREAT SALT LAKE
54. JOSEPH SMITH MEMORIAL BUILDING
55. BRIGHAM YOUNG HOME called the “Beehive House.”
56. CHURCH OFFICE BUILDING
57. RIO GRANDE RIVER
58 AIRPLANES
59. RAINBOW
60. RIVER FLOOD
61. TAOS PUEBLO at Taos, New Mexico
62. LIVING IN A DIRT FLOOR HOUSE
63. ANCESTRAL HOME
64. ANCESTRAL HOME
65. ANCESTRAL HOME
66. MANASSA CHAPEL
67. ANCESTRAL HOME.
68. SCHOOL HOUSE.
69. TORNADOES
70. RUN FOR THE CHEROKEE STRIP 2 million acres of Indian land was open for homesteads 1889.
71. FAMILY WAGON TRAIN searching for homestead land.
72. ANCESTRAL HOME.
73. ANCESTRAL HOME.
74. CATHOLIC CHURCH
75. LOG CABIN
76. HARVESTING
77. FAMILY RANCH
78. FOREST SERVICE HOUSE
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79. MOVING TO NEW HOME
80. THOROUGHBRED HORSE
81. FAMILY HOME
82. ADOBE HOUSE
83. CHAPEL
84. FAMILY HOME
85. MESA ARIZONA TEMPLE
86. MESA HIGH SCHOOL.
87. WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
88. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
89. BEAUTY SHOP
90. LOGGING WOODS
91. FAMILY HOME
92. FAMILY HOME
93. CHAPEL
94. CITY WE LIVED IN
95. CITY WE LIVED IN
96. CITY WE LIVED IN
97. CHAPEL
98. FAMILY HOME
99. FAMILY BUSINESS
100. FAMILY RANCH
101. OAKLAND CALIFORNIA TEMPLE
102. WORLD WAR II 1941-1945
103. MOUNT FUJI and the beautiful PAGODAS in Japan
104. COLORADO RANCH
105. FAMILY CABIN
106. PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE near San Francisco, California
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