by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | LOUISVILLE
Standing in a neighborhood hardware store, I happened to overhear a customer talking to the shop owner. The customer was a pleasant, round-faced woman in her eighties who was having a problem with clearing water out of her basement after recent...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | Gallery Years
Whenever I drive out Dixie Highway and pass the Southwest Government Center, I have to smile because once upon a time our Southwest Artists group was involved with a Parade to celebrate the opening of the Center. The police in the Center frowned when...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMOUS PEOPLE
In the “Year of a Million Dreams”, it was most fitting to pay homage to a gentleman artist whose work brightened the childhood years of many generations. Scattering his magic throughout the lives of old and young alike with the antics of Mickey...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMOUS PEOPLE
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill sat at his easel staring at a blank sheet, unable to begin a new work. A ladyfriend, seeing his dilemma, walked over, snatched away his brush, made several hasty broad swipes on the sheet hen demanded,...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
When the Florida family lived in Clearwater, the boys decided to take me out into the woods to explore their favorite hiding places, while I was visiting their home one summer. They prepared by scraping long sticks on the front sidewalk to sharpen them so we...