by Gerry Furgason | Apr 6, 2024 | RELATIVES
My Mother was almost world-famous. While she was working as a nurse at St Joseph’s Infirmary in Louisville, Kentucky, she had great compassion for the patients who spent many days bedfast during their recovery. The pressure on their bodies from long...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 14, 2024 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
In time we were able to move our work area to the first floor student lunchroom, but in the first years that I taught Oil Painting in the Adult and Continuing Education Classes as part of the Jefferson County program at Seneca High School, our classroom was...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 14, 2024 | Gallery Years
In the years when our nonprofit Art Gallery was known as The Falls City Community Art Gallery, it was housed as a guest of the City of Louisville in the lower level of Founders Square when the unique glass-enclosed structure was located in a park-like area on...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 14, 2024 | FAMILY
Memories to me have been snapshots my mind has taken during years of family rearing. Some come back when triggered by a word or phrase but some stay in my head as a front-page to a file folder containing life moments for each of my children and grandchildren....
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 14, 2024 | FAMOUS PEOPLE
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill sat at his easel staring at a blank canvas unable to begin a new work. A ladyfriend, seeing his dilemma, walked over, snatched away his brush, made several hasty broad swipes on the canvas then demanded,...
