Author Archive: Isla Morley

The Antidote for Us Versus Them

Hoax!  On my screen was what looked like a painted daguerreotype family portrait from an era when people lived in hand-hewn log cabins, raised shoats, and wore dresses sewn from potato sacks, but what made this portrait surely a work of trickery was the color of the complexion of five family members: bright, shocking, no-doubt-about-it […]