"1905 - Born in Spokane,Washington."
"As a boy, I enjoyed roaming the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Higher and higher I climbed, passing the great Douglas firs which punctured the heavens.
"1917 - 1923 - A member of the Boy Scouts of America, attaining the rank of "Eagle".
"1942 - 1943 - Then Pearl Harbor broke, and all of us of Japanese descent were put in concentration camps. My wife and I and our newly born daughter were sent to a camp in Idaho. This I felt at the time was a stupid, insensitive act, one by which my country could only hurt itself. It was a policy of unthinking racism."
1943 - Moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania.1943 - 1990 - Created some of the most interesting furniture and architectural pieces of the middle and latter parts of the twentieth century. His work is included in some of the finest museum collections in the world.
Look him up.
It's worth it.
(Quotations are from, The Soul Of A Tree, harper and Row, etc. -
1981.)Regards,
Tom Watson
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)