Discovery! Answering questions with no apparent answers. Learning un-discovered facts that helped clarify historical records. Un-locking untrue versions of past events, helping find their truths. 

 

My early employment was as a printer in an off-set establishment in Connecticut named “Rainbows”.  Described as a trade-shop, not doing    actual printing but producing quality printing plates to the trade.

 

My skill in the off-set printing process was called “stripping”, the act of composing page layouts for various publications.  Exposure to original art works by Degas, Renoir, Charles Russell, Frederick Remington, Currier & Ives, early maritime ship painters, and many others, generated a curiosity     and desire to learn about the world and my own surroundings.

 

Knowledge of printing requirements qualified me to produce books thru the entire creative process, from lay-out to composition to assembling a finished product. When asked by people what kind of work I did, I delighted in answering; “I am a stripper working at the Rainbows.”

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A growing hobby of collecting antiques, books, bottles, stoneware and more general information follows me to this day, which I have pursued with unflinching enjoyment.  Any downtime was filled with the consumption of and total appreciation for fine wine and food!

 

Those memories are sequestered in various mental compartments, not yet overflowing or overcrowded, waiting for another story to take up residence.

 

Bon Appetit

David Graci