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First Light at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

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Cadillac Mountain is the centerpiece of Mount Desert Island in Maine and the heart of Acadia National Park. At 1,530 feet above sea level, Cadillac Mountain is the highest point along the North Atlantic seaboard and offers dramatic panoramas in every direction. Mount Desert Island is notable as the second largest island on America’s eastern seaboard (Long Island, New York is larger) and as the home of Acadia National Park. The commercial center of the island is the town of Bar Harbor on Frenchman’s Bay.

To make the image featured in the First Light jigsaw puzzle, photographer Paul Rezendes positioned his camera at the top of Cadillac Mountain and directed the lens toward the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman’s Bay and located just to the east of Bar Harbor. The dramatic sweep of the picture ranges from the granite stone of the mountain and on to the fog-bound islands in the bay below. The beautiful pink color of the stone is enhanced by the light of the sun rising beyond the Atlantic Ocean behind the photographer.

First Light Jigsaw Puzzle | 1,000 Pieces | Finished Size: 19 by 26 inches | Artist: Paul Rezendes | Published by Tide-mark

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Flowers by Amalia Veralli 2024 Wall Calendar

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We look at a beautiful flower, but do we actually see it? In Flowers 2023, Amalia Elena Veralli proves herself to be a passionate visual explorer, and her photographs take us on an expedition into the remarkable structure of flowers. Whether observing the entire bloom or seeing into a flower’s core, Flowers by Amalia Elena Veralli reveals the incredible patterns, vaulted canopies, and spires that argue for nature’s place as Earth’s foremost architect.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Flowers featured in this edition include:
≈ Orchid Cactus
≈ Peony
≈ Gerbera Daisy
≈ Tulip
≈ Anemone
≈ Love-in-a-mist
≈ Passion Flower
≈ Parrot Tulip
≈ Cosmos
≈ Ranunculus
≈ Calla Lily
≈ Bloodroot

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Ghost Dance 2024 Wall Calendar

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In the late 1800s, the Ghost Dance religion promised hope and resurrection at a time when Native American nations across America faced destruction. Misunderstood by authorities, the Ghost Dance sparked the savage attack on Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in 1890. Through his paintings in Ghost Dance, JD Challenger renews the bonds of strength and dignity linking Native Americans to their history.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Paintings featured in the this edition include:
≈ Red Wolf Spirit
≈ Blackbird
≈ Blood Moon
≈ Cool Bear
≈ Red Thunder
≈ Stands Ready
≈ A Long Time Coming
≈ Yellow Eagle’s Dance
≈ Young Red Dog
≈ Way of the Warrior
≈ Turquoise Tears
≈ The Drums will Lead Us Home

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Great Golf 2024 Wall Calendar

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Enjoy Great Golf across America and beyond in this expansive collection of links that ranges from Wailea in Hawaii to Kingsbarns in Scotland. There are great public courses like Pebble Beach and private courses like the Palmer Course at PGA West. These tracks will challenge you to bring your best game and enjoy great shots all year long. Fore!

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Great Trains 2024 Wall Calendar

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In Great Trains 2024 the power and romance of the rails is captured through the paintings of Gil Bennett. There are paintings of classic passenger trains of the past, along with locomotives that moved freight and goods across this land. From the diminutive 2-4-4T of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad to Union Pacific’s big 4-6-6-4 Challenger, trains from coast to coast are depicted with historical details about the railroads and trains pictured.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• In 1937, the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad ordered five 4-8-4 locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works for fast freight and passenger service. Being a “Southern” railroad, they called these Generals instead of the regular moniker of “Northern.”
• On February 12, 1909, a light snow started that ended up dumping six feet of snow on the western slope of Cumbres Pass. This closed the Denver & Rio Grande line over the pass and stranded several trains. The railroad had two rotary snowplows, OM and ON, but a mild winter was forecast, so OM was sent to Denver to be rebuilt. ON was clearing the line over Marshall Pass.
• A light snow falls as Union Pacific Challenger 3989 heads up the 1.7% grade out of Ogden, Utah in 1948. Challenger 3989 is headed against an east wind as it struggles up the steep grade at 12 mph. Back at the end of the train, a big 2-10-2 pushes to keep the train moving.
• Western Pacific 901A is at the top of Silver Zone Pass. Snow-covered Pilot Peak is in the back on the Utah–Nevada border.
• Here Union Pacific GP30 718, GP30B 731, and GP30 817 take the local back to Ogden on a cool day in May.
• Every week during World War II,
the Logan High marching band and well wishers would send off sailors, soldiers, and airmen. The Utah-Idaho Central station at Logan, Utah, was filled with the crowds that would spill out into the street. UIC train 206 would depart at 11:35 a.m. with mail, passengers, and the newly drafted kids, heading off to meet trains in Ogden.
• To run their freight trains, the road ordered eighty large 2-8-4 Berkshires from ALCO and Lima Locomotive works. These locomotives would regularly handle freight trains at speeds over 60 mph for an enviable on time performance.To keep trains moving, even coal and ore trains would run at 45 to 50 mph, as seen here. Berkshire 761 accelerates its ore train out of a small town in Ohio on a warm summer morning.
• Here we see the Hooterville Cannon Ball stopped at the Shady Rest Hotel water stop with Betty Jo in the cab talking to Earl of Petticoat Junction. The locomotive, Sierra number 3, is a Rogers 4-6-0 built in 1891. It still runs today.
• Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad locomotive #8, a Mason Machine Works Bogie, pulls a train into East Boston in 1906. This was once the most heavily traveled passenger line in the United States.
• Denver & Rio Grande locomotive 361, a C-21, and 454, a K-27, help the road engine 456, a K-27, move a loaded twenty-car stock train up Cerro Summit in western Colorado in 1947.
• Altoona was the main shop and locomotive complex of the Pennsylvania Railroad, building cars and steam and electric
locomotives. The busy line through town saw more than 200 freight and passenger trains and helper movements daily. All passenger trains would get a helper to climb up the grade west of town, and freights would get both a helper on the front and pushers on the rear to move tonnage up the mountain. Here 6459, a 2-10-4 J1a, and 4587, an I1sa 2-10-0, shove hard on the back of a heavy freight train as it blasts past the tower at Slope.
• The shrill cry of a whistle reverberates against the crystal-trimmed depot at Elkhorn, Nebraska, as a frosty Union Pacific 2-10-2 and 4-12-2 hustle tonnage westward on Christmas Day, 1951. Clear exhaust forms a white muffler for the charging steamers as helper engine 5057 and road engine 9504 head southeast in the sub-zero morning.

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GTO Classics 2024 Wall Calendar

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The Pontiac GTO arrived in showrooms ready to rumble in the fall of 1963. The GTO package included a 325 hp, 389 cu in V8 with a four-barrel carb, dual exhausts, and a Hurst shifter on the floor. Gran Turismo sales proved Detroit’s muscle car concept was irresistible to American drivers, and GTO
sales rocked on for a decade.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

GTO classics featured in this edition include:
≈ Pontiac GTOs from 1964 to 1974

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Hot Rods 2024 Wall Calendar

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Hot rods and custom cars have always represented the independent and rebellious spirit of America. A craze that started not long after WWII when G.I.’s returning home decided to strip down and modify for speed an old jalopy they could pick up for cheap. Whether cruising to the burger stand or racing at the drag strip, these lowered, chopped, flamed, and chromed cars got the looks …and the girls! It’s a trend that continues to this day and is more popular than ever. Hot Rod Artist Larry Grossman brings this exciting scene to life with his unique and highly detailed pictures in Hot Rods.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Hot Rods featured in this edition include:
√ This sharp ’55 Ford Crown Victoria features all of the classic “mild” custom additions, including a tube grill, tuck n’ roll, lakes pipes, and fender skirts. And note the factory original green plexi skylight. That classic Ford dealership was in Beverly Hills.
√ This “Ol’ Skool,” full-fendered ’32 Ford 3-window coupe has all the classic features, including a chopped top, louvered hood, and fat whitewalls.
√ The ’57 Chevy Nomad was (along with the ’55 & ’56 models) one of the most stylish production-line cars ever manufactured. I owned a black ‘57 when I was 17… and wish I still had it!
√ Ya’ just never know what you’ll find on Route 66. In this case it’s a chopped ’51 Ford “Shoebox” kustom, a wayward cowgirl, and two dudes lookin’ for some action!
√ Looks like a getaway is in progress, as a jail bird plows through the wall in this hijacked ’64 Plymouth CHP gasser!
√ Here’s a blown ’37 Chevy gasser, wheel-standing off the line at the famed Famoso Dragstrip, site of the Bakersfield Nationals.
√ This ’54 Corvette Nomad was a one-off concept car that unfortunately never went into production. It did however pave the way for the full-sized ’55-57 Nomad wagons that followed.
√ Featuring a nasty looking blown HEMI mill, this ’26 Ford ’T’ truck must really scoot. The classic Art Deco-style Firestone dealership was located on La Brea Ave. in L.A., unfortunately, it’s been converted to a bar-brewery!
√ In 2013 I created this picture of the famed Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood which became the backdrop for four of customizer Rick Dore’s beautifully streamlined creations. Rick commissioned me to add his cars, and he can be spotted on the sidewalk behind his stunning “Black Pearl.”
√ It’s pedal-to-the-metal as this wicked chopped and flamed ’49 Merc kustom hauls-ass somewhere along the badlands of ol’ Route 66.
√ This radical ’49 Studebaker kustom truck hauls a beautiful ’48 Anglia gasser. They’re obviously headed for a race somewhere!
√ This two-toned ‘48 Chevy low-rider has all the essential accessories: sun visors, fog and spotlights, fender skirts, and rear window blinds! And check out the cool Zoot Suits on the low riders hangin’ at their local tire shop… praise the Lower’d indeed!

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Howard Fogg Trains 2024 Wall Calendar

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Considered the all-time master of railroad art, Howard Fogg painted the power and majesty of the steel wheel on the steel rail. After rail fans discovered Fogg’s artistry, he spent the next 50 years as a freelance artist reinventing the steam age. In Howard Fogg Trains 2024, his paintings live on, commemorating the great age of railroading.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Railroads featured in this edition include:
• It is the early winter of 1949, and Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbriar Class J-3 (4-8-4) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1937 is on the point of a passenger train making a stop at the Thurmond, West Virginia depot.
• Northern Pacific Class A-5 Northern (4-8-4) 2681 is leading an eastbound mail train east of Bozeman, Montana in the winter of 1950. There were ten locomotives in the A-5 class, 2680 through 2689, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and delivered in 1943.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG-1, one of ten motors of this class painted in Tuscan Red to match the color of the Morning Congressional is travelling through a snowy scene north of Philadelphia on its way to New York City, about 85 miles away.
• When the first Union Pacific Railroad 4000 was rolled out of the shop at American Locomotive Company, an unknown employee had chalked the words “Big Boy” on the front of the smokebox. Union Pacific had given thought to calling them “Wahsatches” after the grade they were originally designed to conquer.
• Rio Grande Southern Locomotives 21, a Consolidation (2-8-0) and 23, a Ten Wheeler (4-6-0) are leading a southbound string of varnish across Bridge 45-A, the 470-foot-long Howard Creek Trestle.
• Aliquippa and Southern 1210 is handling switching chores at its parent plant, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The cars are being set out for a pick-up by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, which passes by just outside the gate here.
• Missouri Pacific 356, along with two other units, an FB-2 and an FA-2, is leading an eastbound expedited freight along the Missouri River at Jefferson City, Missouri, on its way to St. Louis in the summer of 1955.
• Locomotive 46238 of the former London, Midland and Scottish Railway is running through verdant green country north of London, England in the summer of 1950. A 4-6-2 designed for passenger train service, 46238 was named City of Carlisle.
• With the temperature hovering near 110 degrees, Union Pacific 1630A (a Model FA with two FBs built in 1949 by the American Locomotive Company trailing) has the westbound Daylight Livestock Express making near passenger train speed as it passes an isolated siding southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada in the Summer of 1949.
• Engine 1401, a Class Ps-4 Pacific (4-6-2), was one of a dozen built by Richmond Locomotive Company in 1926 for passenger train service. Southern Railway had numerous other Pacific-type engines, 261 in total, but these 12 were painted green with gold trim for service on the Crescent.
• In 1927 and 1928, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built a pair of articulated tank engines, numbers 50 and 51. This painting shows Engine 51 coming through Cooley, Colorado.

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Illinois Central Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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The longest railroad in the world in 1856, Illinois Central rails crossed Illinois, and eventually connected Chicago to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Locomotives and trains featured in the calendar range from a Mountain (4-8-2) built by Lima in 1924, an Alco 0-6-0 switcher from 1916, EMD GP-9s from 1954, named trains like the City of Miami, and more. Celebrate the “Mainline of Mid-America.”

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locomotives featured in this edition include:
• Illinois Central EMD Class GP-18 9415 and EMD Class GP-28 9432 lead a local freight at Louisville, KY, on January 7, 1966.
• Illinois Central 9030 and 9008 (two GP9’s built by EMD in 1954) are running light at Clinton, IL, on February 3, 1955. Between 1954 and 1958, Illinois Central purchased 328 GP-9s.
• Here comes Illinois Central 4000 on the northbound City of Miami approaching Champaign, IL, on March 2, 1947. The City of Miami offered every-third-day reserved coach service.
• Illinois Central 2736, a 2-10-2 Santa Fe with an auxiliary water car, is being prepared for service at the Paducah, KY, engine terminal on April 27, 1957. This locomotive and others like it were built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1921, and most remained in service until late 1958.
• Illinois Central engine 9512, an Electro-Motive GP-38AC four-axle, diesel-electric built in 1970, and two other units just like it, plus a Gulf, Mobile and Ohio unit on the rear of the power consist lead a freight through Alma, IN, on May 2, 1973.
• Illinois Central 2438, a Mountain Type (4-8-2) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in December 1924, is in passenger train service at Chicago, IL, on June 2, 1953.
• Illinois Central 9200 and 9203, both steam boiler equipped EMD GP-9s, are on Train #11, the Hawkeye at Chicago, IL, in July 1966. The Hawkeye was a daily train operated between Chicago and Sioux City, IA, a distance of 509 miles. The Hawkeye operated under that name from 1919 until the last train ran the day prior to the start of Amtrak.
• Illinois Central (EMD E-9A) 4034 and Central of Georgia 812 (EMD E8A painted in I.C. colors) are leading Train #10, the northbound Seminole at Kankakee, IL, on July 26, 1967. The Seminole went into service in 1925. It was a passenger train, providing daily service between Chicago and Naples, FL.
• Locomotive 2604, a Mountain (4-8-2), is on a southbound coal empty; it has pulled off the main line at DuQuoin, IL, to allow a freight to do some switching in September 1958. The Illinois Central acquired E units early on, but they continued to use steam instead of the early diesel cab units like the EMD FT’s, F3’s, F7’s and Alco FA’s through 1958.
• Illinois Central 290, one of two 0-6-0 switchers built by the American Locomotive Company in 1916, was assigned switching duties at New Orleans, LA, on October 3, 1943. Legendary Denver photographer Richard Kindig was on leave from the Army during World War II and found 290 at the I.C. engine terminal.
• Here is the Green Diamond northbound at the Kankakee, IL, depot on November 13, 1941. Built by Pullman-Standard, it was delivered with a power car and five passenger cars, all streamlined. Officially delivered to the Illinois Central on March 27, 1936, IC ran several publicity trains, and the train was put on display. Finally, on May 17, 1936, it was put into regular service.
• Illinois Central 3507, an 0-8-0 built and delivered by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921, is putting on a quite a show as it pulls away from the water tank at Paducah, KY, on April 28, 1957. There were originally 70 of these switchers and they all had long careers. These locomotives were retired a few at a time as diesel switchers took over, and by 1960 all of them were retired.

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Joshua Tree National Park 2024 Wall Calendar

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The remarkable landscape of Joshua Tree National Park in California is a source of amazement. Like some playground of lost ancients, rocks and boulders are piled whimsically in a desert landscape of Joshua Trees and blasted oaks. The park protects two desert ecosystems that feature tortoises that drink no water and pricklypear that look science fictional. Amazing!

This 2023 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

About Joshua Tree National Park

The park was first designated a national monument in 1936 and accorded national park status in 1994. It occupies 795,156 acres in southeastern California where it protects two desert ecosystems, each with characteristics that reflect their elevation. The higher area is the Mojave Desert and the lower area is the Colorado Desert. The park is named after the Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. People of the Pinto Culture lived in the area as early as 8,000 BCE, and a series of ancestral peoples followed. Spaniards were the first Europeans to see the area in 1772. A Mexican expedition explored here in 1823 when that new country gained its freedom from Spain. California, including the area of the park, was annexed to the United States after winning the Mexican-American War in 1848. Miners arrived in the 1860s and dug a series of mines, eventually totaling about 300, searching for gold and silver. The Desert Queen Mine was one of the last successful mines, producing copper, zinc, and iron. The related ranch and mill were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. White settlers arrived here in 1870,
established farms, and grazed cattle. The Joshua Tree, as well as Pinon pine, California juniper, types of oak, the
dollarjoint pricklypear, and other plant species, grow in the higher and cooler Mojave Desert. Below 3,000 feet, the Colorado Desert covers the eastern part of the park where hot, dry conditions support a variety of desert scrub and cactus. The park’s iconic rock formations result from exposure of volcanic rock, often pushed to the surface by tectonic forces, that is subject to the forces of erosion. The area of the park, is crisscrossed with active faults. The San Andreas Fault passes southwest of the park, and a system of related faults extends throughout the area of the park. Five blocks of mountains in the park are called Transverse Ranges because they tend to run east and west along fault lines. The Coxcomb Mountains in the east run north and south parallel to the San Andreas. Camping is available at nine campgrounds in the park. It is also possible to backpack into the backcountry to camp. The park is an attraction for rock climbers because it offers thousands of climbing routes that include all levels of difficulty.
Birders are attracted to the park because it is a haven for many species that winter there. There are also many resident desert birds, ranging from the greater roadrunner and the cactus wren to Gambrel’s quail. The park is adjacent to a section of the Pacific Flyway that attracts a range of migrating species. Many park animals like birds and squirrels are active during the heat of the day, but a range of animals prefer the cool of the night. Nocturnal animals seen after dark range from Big Horn sheep and coyotes to bobcats and black-tailed jackrabbits. Despite its ability to survive without drinking water, the desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert lowlands is now considered a threatened species.
On average the park receives only about 5.45 inches of rain throughout the year. Between June and September, temperatures average more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, while January sees an average low of 35 degrees. Average high temperatures exceed 60 degrees in nearly every month of the year. The park is trending hotter and drier. Annual precipitation has declined 39 percent between 1895 and 2016, and the annual average temperature has increased 3 degrees.

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June Breeze Jigsaw Puzzle by Jonathan Green

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Looking as if she is floating in the clouds, a young woman wearing pearls and an expansive woven sun hat is the subject of the original painting, June Breeze, by South Carolina artist Jonathan Green and transformed here into a 1,000-piece June Breeze jigsaw puzzle. The young woman in the painting seems as mysterious as she is elegant. Looking away from the painter toward something only she can see, she wears a white dress with puffed tulle sleeves and a billowing strand of tulle decorates her large woven reed hat. The result is a painting that is both beautiful and enigmatic. Though the expanses of white may make this a more challenging jigsaw puzzle to complete, the result will surely reward the effort in the working of it.
• Artist: Jonathan Green
• 1,000 piece puzzle
• Finished size: 19 by 26 inches
• Made in America
• Published by Tide-mark © 2022

Lizard Head Summit Jigsaw Puzzle by Howard Fogg

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The Lizard Head jigsaw puzzle pictures the San Miguel Mountains serving as a magnificent backdrop for Rio Grande Southern 461, a Denver and Rio Grande Western hand-me-down, as it pulls past the depot at the summit of Lizard Head Pass, about 20 miles southwest of Telluride, Colorado. D&RGW 463, which was on a short-term lease, has assisted the train to the top of the hill, and shortly it will be on its way, running light to the division point at Rico,  Colorado, with 461 and its train following about a one-half hour later. It is the early summer of 1951, the last year of operations on the Southern. Abandonment would follow the next year.

Lizard Head Summit Jigsaw Puzzle | 1,000 Pieces | Finished size: 19 by 26 inches | Artist: Howard Fogg | Published by Tide-mark

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