My Fall of Troy

When going through that old box of "stuff" on the 3rd floor I came across the old rolled up drawing I did in 2nd grade depicting the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy. I was really obsessed with ancient history like this at a very early age. Seven years old!!

I do remember making this drawing on that long piece of paper and rolling it up when I was done. I guess it was part of some class. Maybe a Friday afternoon art project at our school... St. Francis of Assissi in Germantown and located down the street from our house. So Mom kept that drawing for decades and it got passed to me somewhere along the way. 

I think this drawing was probably made toward the end of the academic year when we were allowed to do a lot of art projects so that would make it the late spring of 1958 and I was seven years old. I was trying to think back on who my 2nd grade teacher but I'm just not sure.

I do remember making this drawing on that long piece of paper and rolling it up when I was done. I guess it was part of some Friday afternoon art project at our school. Somehow over the decades that rolled paper made it from my mom's attic to my box of old "stuff".

I would go on to read many books on the Trojan War over the years and obsessed over Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey. I must have seen some movie that got me going with it.

I broke up the picture of the drawing into three parts to see it better. When I found the drawing it was rolled up into one little tube that was hard to know what it was. Then I unrolled it.