In 1939 Everett became the night watchman at the neighbouring “Poor Farm,” the local name for the Alms House, and stopped selling fish. Not needing the Ford for work, he eventually sold it. Maud Lewis may have enjoyed the relative freedom of travelling around Digby County for only a few short months, but the memories became an important source of her imagery. She painted many versions of this happy couple in their old Ford, such as Model T on Tour, 1960s, but it is not a portrait—the figures are too generalized to be recognized as individuals. In Lance Woolaver’s book The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis, one version of this work, then owned by the Woolaver family, was identified as Maud and Ev. But as Lewis did not title her paintings, that was surely a later appellation. The image is now known as Model T Ford.   This painting is also notable for the bright spring flowers lining the road. The tulips in the foreground are one of Lewis’s most common decorative flourishes, seen in paintings such as Carriage and Dog, n.d. It would be nice to think that the back roads of Digby County were lined with flowers, but that, of course, is only true in Lewis’s depictions of that world.   This Spotlight is excerpted from Maud Lewis: Life & Work by Ray Cronin.