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One More Mailbox to Fill

A smaller boat carrying a crew with bags of mail approaches a minesweeper in the background, the seas are heavy
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Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas Board; by John Charles Roach; 1991; Framed Dimensions 26H X 34W
Accession #: 92-007-V
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Mail is delivered to the small boys up north in the Gulf by motor whale boat going to each minesweeper in turn.  The minesweepers were often found in the most remote locations.  That's where the mines were!

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