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Jean Dixon Sanders

Jean Dixon Sanders has been a painter and graphic designer for 30 years. A graduate of Washington College, where she majored in fine art, She lives in Florida. She contributes several weekly illustrations to The Chestertown Spy. Her blog, Fine Art Daily, can be seen at www.jeandsanders.blogspot.com


Fine Art Daily - August 16, 2010

Published: August 16, 2010 05:30 Last Updated: May 19, 2011 21:15

Pippi Longstocking House in Fernandina Beach, FL

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Pippi Longstocking House in Fernandina Beach, FL
(© Jean Dixon Sanders 2010)

August 16, 2010
Back from vacay - but it will be a light week - we will be taking the Tall One away to college later this week.
We slipped away to Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island last week. What a delightful place! We stayed away from the beachy scene and found a nice quiet corner in Old Town, right across the street from this Victorian pile which was used in the filming of "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking". It looks like Miss Haversham could have been happy here so I don't know how the mischievous Pippi and her horse and her monkey were contained. We were told it was painted pink for the movie which might have made all the difference...


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