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anchorlightrolly.com. I don't know about you, but I learned an awful lot about art, opera,

folk tales, and even history from one particular source while I was growing up. And it wasn't

school. Or at least it wasn't always school. No, I learned

about all that cultural goodness from cartoons, especially Looney Tunes and shorts from Disney's

acclaimed Golden Age of Animation. I learned about Wagner from the cartoon where Elmer Fudd

is chasing Bugs Bunny around, singing Kill De Wabbit, and I first learned of

Rudyard Kipling through Disney's interpretation of his 1894 title, The Jungle Book. And I got my

first glimpse of one of the most famous paintings in American history through a Donald Duck short,

titled Donald's Diary. It features Donald reminiscing about the development of his relationship

with his lady love, Daisy Duck, and involves a scene where Daisy introduces Donald to her parents.

Her mother is seated in a blue-walled room, seen in profile wearing a severe black gown and a white

head covering, her head propped up on a box and a book plopped onto her lap.

Here she is, Daisy Duck's mother, a figure that we probably had never seen before in Disney cartoons.

And yet, we recognize her right away because we understand the reference. She is not just Daisy's

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