Life in Europe was so rich and constantly filled with wonderous experiences. I had the opportunity to create hundreds of paintings, sketches and photographs, employing the geometric design system, The Golden Section, used by all the classical master artists. I was starting to feel a pull to shift my focus away from creating my own […]

Every Easter, Cathy, my wife and I would go to Crete. We stayed in an inn at the end of a dirt road that was run by the Grammatikakis family. After the fifth year we went, they put in a tarmac road, telephone poles and the whole landscape changed because of the region’s flourishing tourist […]

We then went to Totnes, which was a small tourist town in the southwest of England. We sent Cathy to a private school there called Dartington Hall. She was with a bunch of aristocratic children, and is still in touch with friends she made there. The campus was absolutely marvelous. It is sad that it has […]

When we got to Devon, about 200 miles southwest of London, we couldn’t find a rental property. Our realtor told us Commander Rustom K.S. Ghandhi and his wife wanted to sell their home, but didn’t want to put it on the market. We visited Commander Ghandhi and his wife, and were fascinated with their backgrounds. […]

While living in Allentown on Hamilton St., and Geissinger Street in Bethlehem, I taught Drawing, Figure Drawing, Oil Painting and Color Courses at The Baum School of Art and Moravian College. I also taught a Foundation Drawing Course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I prepared and presented the art student’s show at Moravian College […]

Upon arriving in Paris, I went to the American Student Center where I met a young woman who, much to my surprise, was the daughter of the then Governor of Maine, my home state. We chatted, and she told me the person I wanted to speak to was Mrs. Sargent, wife of the Reverend Sargent. […]