last week i went to the san diego museum of art with several other club members and saw paintings by george inness (george inness and the visionary landscape). if you are unfamiliar with g.i., he was an important member of the 'hudson river school' of 19th century artists. there were about 50 landscape paintings in all among which there were several of montclair n.j. also included were other paintings of northern n.j. including one titled "hackensack meadows." g.i. was expressing his spiritual vision of the land. i'm telling you, back in the day...