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ARNOLD’S RESTAURANT: A NASHVILLE INSTITUTION

Arnold’s restaurant is a Nashville institution started thirty years ago by Jack Arnold.  Southerners lovingly refer to this type of eatery as  “a meat and 3” and the place to be, standing in lines that run out the door. Get your food and take a seat in this cozy atmosphere or join anyone else for a great lunch and interesting

FLASHBACK: DEJA VU

Deja vu is an interesting phenomenon!  While having lunch with my son, James, at Chuy’s on the corner of 17th and Broadway, the famed Music Row in Nashville, it dawned on me I had been here before. It had been forty years since I was last in this building. Back then, it was a drive-in restaurant where the musicians and

FLASHBACK: TODAY IN HISTORY, JFK

It was the 22 of November 1963 and I was sitting in our Air Force base theatre in Dreux, France watching the John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart movie, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. The movie ended, the house lights came on and the theatre manager took the stage to announce that President Kennedy had been shot.  Everyone was stunned!

FLASHBACK: ROY ROGERS and HIS INFLUENCE ON MY WORK

  At an early age, my interest in drawing began and I illustrated; Cowboys, Indians & characters from the Sunday comics. It was in the sixth grade that a friend asked me if I had ever drawn a real person, I had not so I gave it a try. Some of the school tablets we used had western stars on

TRIBUTE TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARIE D’ARC

The past thirty years of traveling to Memphis for Elvis Week, I have made some wonderful friends that I cherish dearly. In 1981 the first fans I met were Marie D’Arc ( 1948-2011) and her New Jersey friends which forged a lasting and wonderful  friendship. Marie was a very talented artist and teacher. During one of our  Memphis trips, we

ELVIS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

For the artist there are no boundaries but our own imagination. Artists have always used those things at hand to express visually that which could not be expressed verbally. With my art, I stride to create “Moments in Time”.  I want to continue to  grow by embracing all new avenues of creative possibilities. Over the past ten years, I have been working