Comments on: Classic Covers: Can You Guess the City?

By: Joseph H. Knight

Joseph H. Knight — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:16:29 +0000

I was born in Falls City,Nebraska June 16th, 1938. This cover is a treasure to all in my family. My mother, Ida Lucille Knight nee Asendorf was a class mate of John Falter.

By: Diana Denny

Diana Denny — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:59:07 +0000

Kathleen: I totally need a geography refresher – I can’t believe I didn’t know how far south Delaware is! You’re right about the Mason-Dixon line, but I find a lot of people think of it as further South. Thanks for the correction.

By: Kathleen McKinley

Kathleen McKinley — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:05:45 +0000

Your notes about March 17, 1962 cover stating that New Castle, Delaware is in “New England” are WAY off base! Delaware in a Mid-Atlantic state and is nowhere near New England. It’s south of Pennsylvania, due east of Maryland, west of the SOUTHERN part of New Jersey (in fact, Delaware extends farther south than the southernmost part of New Jersey), and makes up part of the “Delmarva Peninsula,” which consists of the State of Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia – and I don’t think anyone thinks Maryland and Virginia are in New England. As far as the Mason-Dixon Line is concerned, it IS “down south” – or at least it’s the demarcation line between “down south” and “up north,” and most of the State of Delaware WOULD, in fact, be below the Mason-Dixon Line if it extended farther east instead of stopping at Delaware’s western border.

By: Jennifer James

Jennifer James — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:45:50 +0000

Thank you for sharing these wonderful Falter covers. Falls City is my hometown and we’re very proud of John Falter. What an incredible illustrator and artist!

By: Ruth Nixon

Ruth Nixon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:35:34 +0000

Thank you so much for following up on my suggestion. Although I live 1/2 a continent away, and Falls City’s main street has changed somewhat, brings back memories of the way it was in 1946.
And I do enjoy the present-day Saturday Evening Post!

By: Jim Ruark

Jim Ruark — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:32:38 +0000

On my family room wall I have four framed covers of The Saturday Evening Post with paintings done by John Falter in the mid-1940s. All are scenes from my childhood, one being the two-room schoolhouse where I attended third and fourth grades. The school was in Blooming Glen, Pennsylvania, the town where I lived, which was just a few miles from the town of Dublin, where Falter lived. (The building remains, but is no longer a school.) Another cover shows a boy carrying a lunchbox through a wheatfield to a school in the background; I knew the boy’s sister, but not him. (Falter identified the boy in describing the painting on the contents page inside the magazine.) A third cover shows a Fourth of July parade in front of a major building in downtown Perkasie, a nearby town; I have a photograph of that scene after the building burned down in 1988. The fourth cover shows a stucco farmhouse with a closeline, which looks similar to my grandparents’ home, although it is not their farmhouse. These covers are a treasure.

By: jonibee

jonibee — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:27:07 +0000

Reminds me of “My Hometown” by Bruce Springstein