July 23 , 2008 DW2 artist Florence Moonan shares the following good news:

My painting, Dorothy Fields and Me: Doin What Comes Natur’lly, has been accepted into the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission’s juried exhibition and selected for the Stanley and Nancy Baron award for painting. The jurors were Nessa Grainger and James Toogood.

Artists were asked to think beyond the traditional pastoral landscape and to paint the mood of Hunterdon County as well as its reality. This piece, completed in 2008 for the DW2 exhibition at The Gallery at Mercer, is devoted to Dorothy Fields and to Florence ’s memories of St. John Terrell’s famed Lambertville Music Circus, a major cultural attraction in Hunterdon County from 1949 to 1970. Florence writes: "Annie Get Your Gun was the first show in which my sister, Joyce, and I had minor roles. One side of this piece is dedicated to Dorothy Fields who wrote the libretto for Annie Get Your Gun, and the other records my experience with the Music Circus. This early connection with the theater has been a driving force for my creative endeavors as a visual artist."

The show will be up through July 31. The show is on display in the Prallsville Mills building, on Route 29 in Stockton, NJ, (about 3 miles north of Lambertville.) It’s open daily from 12 - 5 pm, free of charge.