Justine Landis, Artist & Historian

Mrs. Justine Landis is not your typical eighty-three year old who sits around on the couch all day watching her soaps on television. She goes to the gym, draws, paints, and on November 21st, she came into the classroom to volunteer.

She taught us about Lewis Miller. He lived a super-long time ago, even before Mrs. Landis was born. He is known for his paintings that showed people living in York in the 1800s. He wrote too about what he drew.

Mrs. Landis knows a lot about Lewis Miller and she even painted murals in Cherry Lane of his little drawings. She showed us pictures and had us draw a picture of a family member or friend, or someone we knew using Sharpie marker and water colors after sketching with pencil. Our work looked like Lewis Miller’s work, at least something like it.

We want our work to look like his work because we are writing and drawing like Lewis Miller. We are Modern Day Lewis Millers!