by Gerry Furgason | Nov 9, 2024 | PAINTING YEARS
Driving out Preston Highway early one morning, I noticed an orange and white Volkswagen Campmobile sitting on a Used Car Sales Lot. An artist friend of mine owned one and I knew this fortunate sighting was a solution to my problem of needing a larger vehicle...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 3, 2024 | ART SHOWS
Watching my relatives work in our family Poplar Level Road Grocery Store inspired me to follow in their footsteps. My five year old ambition was to grow strong enough and tall enough to stand at the checkout counter and sack groceries like my Brother Paul and to...
by Gerry Furgason | Oct 29, 2024 | PAINTING YEARS
Back in the years when I painted in the living room on the first floor, I worked feverously to finish a work before the next weekend’s art exhibition. One more painting was always needed to fill up a show display. My companion in this determined endeavor was...
by Gerry Furgason | Oct 29, 2024 | Artists and Friends
For the information of my relatives and friends, the Carmelite nuns are no longer in the Monastery on Newberg Road in Louisville, Kentucky. Back in the days when they lived there, I would quite often visit the barrel in their front hallway to request prayers...
by Gerry Furgason | Oct 29, 2024 | EARLY YEARS
Camp Tekakwitha was a Girls Summer Camp located in Carrolton, Kentucky and I had my heart set on attending the site when I was in the third grade. I also had made up my mind to earn the funds to attend the camp session myself. My family had been in the grocery...
