While Marian McKnight is best known to the world as Miss America 1957, those who truly know her — and were fortunate enough to learn beside her — know her story is one of extraordinary intelligence, discipline, and academic excellence. From the very beginning, Marian’s intellectual gifts were undeniable. She was a straight-A student from…
Gary Conway’s Early Art Gary at age 4 decided to become an artist. Gary’s first grade teacher in Boston told his parents that Gary was remarkably gifted as an artist. His parents took her seriously, and when they moved to California, in the first house they purchased the one-car garage became Gary’s first studio. The…
In the moments before the helicopter crashed I was mesmerized ahigh by the undulating wooded hills reaching into the almighty Santa Lucias where the light was blazing and spilling out wide and beyond. A painting in light as in a dream, but I suddenly awakened by a sickening explosion of sound and a spinning helicopter. …