The cover of Woodstock History and Hearsay, second edition, is entitled Rock City Waterfall. This painting is by the author, Anita Miller Smith, and was executed in 1920. In the background is Rosie Magee’s boardinghouse. It is in the impressionist style and displays Smith’s colorful palette.
Mrs. Magee, sometimes known as Mother Magee, served good food and attracted a host of local artists to her dinner table. Artists like John F. Carlson, Henry Lee McFee and Andrew Dasburg had nearby studios, but trouped over to Rosie’s for their meals.
In about 1911 the Eugene Speichers boarded here.
Anita Smith lived for a time in the turner’s mill that was located to the right of the Rock City waterfall (not pictured). Rosie Magee passed away in 1927. In the 1930s Anita Smith built her bluestone house in one Mrs. Magee’s former fields. She liked to say that she took care of Rosie’s apple trees—and hoped that her old friend would be pleased with her ministrations.
The painters who worked in the area were known as the Rock City Group.
Mrs. Magee, sometimes known as Mother Magee, served good food and attracted a host of local artists to her dinner table. Artists like John F. Carlson, Henry Lee McFee and Andrew Dasburg had nearby studios, but trouped over to Rosie’s for their meals.
In about 1911 the Eugene Speichers boarded here.
Anita Smith lived for a time in the turner’s mill that was located to the right of the Rock City waterfall (not pictured). Rosie Magee passed away in 1927. In the 1930s Anita Smith built her bluestone house in one Mrs. Magee’s former fields. She liked to say that she took care of Rosie’s apple trees—and hoped that her old friend would be pleased with her ministrations.
The painters who worked in the area were known as the Rock City Group.
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