Last Updated Sunday June 10, 2007
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My brother Ken and his wife Mary run an art gallery and framing shop out of a building that started out as a blacksmith's shop. Ken is in the green shirt and my other brother Don is in the white one. Don rode in on his motorcycle from Missouri with his wife Mary on the back. I don't have to worry about getting the name right when I refer to my sisters-in-law. Here's a good part of the family inside the shop.
One of the local painters painted a picture of my brother Ken next to his blacksmith shop, which is how he relieves the pressure of living in the big city of Columbus, New Jersey. That's Don taking a picture of Ken and his painting. The picture was so popular that the local newspaper came an took a picture of the painting. Ken no longer owns that shirt, or at least he says so to stop the call for him to put it on and pose.
My one and only sister Patty painted these that are hanging in Ken's gallery. He actually sold some of them! Now I can boast of my sister the professional artist. Recently she received a commission to paint 20 pictures on the walls of a new public building in New Jersey. Now she really is a pro.
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