1. The Approach 2. GOLIATH’s Broadside Within range of the battery of Fort Aboukir – HMS Goliath was the first British ship to engage the French fleet. She’s seen here taking the full force of their Soon the rest of the British fleet was into the action. Here HMS Goliath is seen firing her own broadside while behind her HMS Zealous and Nelson’s flagship initial fire. In the distance on the far right the French brigs Allerte and Raileur are seen returning to port after unsuccessfully trying to lure the British ships onto HMS Vanguard are about to cross the French line consisting of Guerrier, Conquerant, Spartiate, Aquilon and 13 others. To the right a mortar ketch fires into Aboukir reef. the British fleet. Tim Thompson Battle of the Nile August 1, 1798 After having spent most of his summer looking for Admiral Egypt and had settled into a well-protected anchorage. Nelson ordered his ships to attack and thus began an engagement that nine badly damaged. The French had no choice but to surrender, Brueys’ Toulon fleet throughout the Western Mediterranean. sighted them in the late afternoon when only a few hours of lasted all night. The key moment in the Frenchmen’s eventual securing one of Britain’s greatest naval victories and catapulting Rear Admiral Nelson and his fleet of ships came upon Breuys daylight remained. Conventional tactics dictated that he wait defeat came at 10:00pm when their flagship, the gigantic 120- Nelson to national hero status. In this set of meticulously as the French lay at anchor in Aboukir Bay. Breuys ships had until the next day to attack. But once again Nelson proved gun L’Orient blew up with a tremendous explosion. At dawn the researched oil each measuring 20” x 40”, Tim just landed Napoleon’s army on their way to the conquest of anything but conventional. Surprising even his own captains he casualties numbered 4 French ships completely destroyed and Thompson recreates the four decisive moments of the battle.

3. The Landward Side 4. L’ORIENT’S Death Throes When the 74-gun HMS Orion (seen to the left of the fort) first fired it was at the smaller 36-gun frigate Serieuse. Orion’s full double-shotted broadside dismasted As the battle progressed and night fell, the British hoisted four lamps horizontally for identification. Orion is seen here with her lamps lit pounding the French 80-gun her and shattered her hull—which soon sank her. To Serieuse’s left is seen the French frigate Artemise, to Orion’s right HMS Goliath, Zealous and Theseus who is Le Franklin. Astern, L’Orient is engulfed by flames. Her spectacular explosion, whose flaming remnants set many other ships on fire, is just a matter of time. just rounding the French line. Noteworthy New Books

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20 21 Continued from page 7 If you find that controversy interesting, wait to it or not, three of which were just sold in London What it essentially means is that in addition to you learn what’s happening in China, where they at auction for more than $25,000 each. Holy moly! leveling the playing field for artists, it also opens have “factories” employing literally hundreds of But if you really want to see something, make up avenues for small and mid-size museums that artists to produce tens of thousands of paintings a visit to Thailand where two Russian artists, don’t have an acquisition budget to grow their col- for the world market, many of them copies of Vitaly Kolmar and Alex Malemid (known for lections. The two caveats are that the work must well-known masters. One artist in China claims actually working on the same paintings together,) be properly appraised by a licensed appraiser, to have painted nearly 20 thousand copies of Van set up, (you are not going to believe this), three given over to a museum at least 18 months from Gogh paintings! How big an industry is this? Well, artist academies to teach elephants to paint. They its creation, and it must be related in someway to according to the United States International even authored a book What Elephants Paint. They the mission or function of the museum or chari- Trade Commission records in 2004 $30.5 million started working with dogs painting in 1977, but table organization. There are obviously a lot of of paintings were imported into the United States in 1995 they came across a 16 year old elephant issues that will be addressed as this moves along. for resale. That translates into much more than named Renée at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio who For example, what’s the value of a musical score by that in retail sales, as the Chinese paintings are they said was “very beautiful and very talented.” a contemporary composer? Or the question raised being sold to the importers for $25 to $30 each, So in 1998 the established the Asian Elephant by Dean Zerbe, senior tax lawyer for the Senate and then resold for $100 or more. Art and Conservation Project to raise money Finance Committee, “What happens if a lawyer for elephant sanctuaries. The first wants to donate a legal brief, for example?” Of year they sold $50,000 worth of ele- course, most artists do not make enough money phant paintings in one night. Over to benefit from a large tax deduction. There will the years the paintings have been certainly be a lot of discussion on this, but it’s shown at the Berkeley Museum of certainly a step in the right direction. Art in California, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Australia, Speaking of museums, the residents—all 47 of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem them—of Pitcairn Island, which many will rec- and sold at Christies. Is this for ognize as the home of the mutineers from Captain real? Very much so. Mia Fineman, Bly’s Bounty, have announced to the world the New York based art historian, “They formation of the Pitcairn Museum, which, with (the elephants) really enjoy paint- a grant from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office, ing. They like exercising their is being established to encourage Pitcairn Island’s And these artists are very good. Its not widely trunks. And they love the attention they get when cruise ship industry. The museum will display known, but during Communism, if you wanted to people watch them.” Even Leonardo De Caprio tools made by Polynesians before the arrival of be an artist or an actor you joined the Chinese army bought one of their paintings for $2,000. What the mutineers and some Bounty memorabilia. It where academies had been set up by the Russians does it all mean? This one has me dumbfounded. is currently located in the school which has ten to train potential artists. It was really the academy Or is that Dumbo-founded? pupils. So if you visit, I don’t think you’ll have a system that impressionists like Van Gogh found hard time finding it. too rigid. It involved young artists being allowed I’m not sure if the elephants will be able to take As always, when the art world is seeing block- for the first two years only to draw the human advantage of the newest Senate bill, however, buster sales like it is now, the temptation to set figure from a live model or cast with a pencil. The which is designed to benefit artists and museums. up art investment funds is strong. The latest to third year they were allowed to work on the figure Sponsored by New York Senator Chuck Schumer set up one is the Dutch bank ABN-Amro. They with color. And finally, in the fourth year they could TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY: $85 plus $10 shipping and New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, the bill are looking seriously into setting up a fund with begin to express themselves more personally in and handling per book. Contact the Greenwich Workshop dramatically changes the landscape for artists and their existing client base, private banks around their subject matter. Tremendously rigorous train- Gallery, (800) 243-4260, 1657 Post Road, Fairfield, CT museums in terms of donations made directly by the world. They’re looking at other models, for ing that guaranteed that the graduates could paint artists, writers, musicians, etc. Whereas in the example the China Fund, which currently buys 06824, or email us at [email protected] Phone virtually whatever they wanted, in whatever man- past there was not any incentive at all for artists to Chinese art in the West for resale to mainland orders require major credit card. To order by mail, please ner they wanted to. Unfortunately for the artists donate directly because they could only receive a Chinese collectors. We’ve discussed how some of working this factory kind of a set up, they are not include check or credit card information. At last, the definitive book on contemporary marine art we’ve been deduction based on the cost of the materials used these funds have fared in our earlier issues. Some getting rich. They’re being paid essentially $200 to to make the art object, i.e. when Picasso was alive well; some not so well. Like everything else, you Wholesale and corporate gift orders: order ten books – get waiting for. The leading authority in the field guides us through the $300 per month to crank out paintings. The market and the painting of his was worth $500,000, he really have to know what you are doing, and get is so vibrant that it actually has swelled the ranks one free. Please contact the publisher: (800) 243-4246 might only be able to take a tax deduction for the good advice. breathtaking beauty of today’s marine art and the artists who are of art graduates from Chinese universities 60% $50 in paint and canvas that it actually cost. That over the last year. Who’s buying these painting? never seemed quite right, and these two senators That’s all the room for now. the recognized leaders of the new renaissance of this Well, Pier 1, Bed Bath and Beyond, individuals have gone a long way towards trying to rectify that. More in our next issue. grand traditional art form. over the Internet, English department stores. You name it. It will be amazing to see what happens, when in the next five years, 500 identical self- portraits by Rembrandt show up in the Rembrandt market for the Rembrandt boys to sort out. How can you tell what’s authentic in your own col- If you could have one book in your library lection. Well, when you’re purchasing, buy from a on contemporary American marine art, this reputable source, and get as much documentation as possible. Collectors of contemporary marine should be it. Written by the acknowledged art have it a little easier because you can actually meet the artists on certain occasions and hear authority in the field, it provides indispensable them talk about the creation of your own painting. A good idea is to make some notes, even if you insight into the most important marine art have an informal conversation with the artist, and artists of our time. keep them with painting’s records. But it’s not just the Chinese who have entered the art market. Have you heard of Congo the chim- panzee? Although poor little Congo wasn’t around very long—born in 1954, died in 1964—he pro- duced some 400 drawings and paintings, believe Drawings by William Gilkerson from the book Pirate’s Passage 22 23 Continued from page 17 As many people know, the United States Navy From San Francisco we hear from Steve Priske, He told me recently that even before that, when he If you visited the Mystic, Connecticut area last and Coast Guard have their own artists programs who has been working on a book on the tall ships was just out of the service, a model he had made of summer you may have seen the maritime art to document their vessels and activities. Sadly, one of San Francisco circa 1859 through 1920, which the Alexander Hamilton was displayed at a ship- equivalent of the “painted cows” which have of the most active artist members in the Coast will feature 1,500 never published before glass crafter’s meeting at the Seaman’s Church appeared in cities all across America over the Guard Artist Program, Pete Eagleton passed on plate negative photographs of West Coast tall ships Institute where it caught the eye of one Arthur last five years. In this case, gigantic sperm recently—or as they say in commercial shipping, which he recently discovered. In addition to the Henning. Henning, at that time, had a modeling whales with their tails upturned. Nearly 50 of he’s now “finished with engines.” Pete’s passion photographs, he’s also uncovered shipyard blue- firm which had the contract to regularly refurbish them, each painted by a local artist and placed at was, in addition to Coast Guard vessels, steel tugs prints and maps, all hand drawn on onionskin of the 1000 travel agent liner models in New York City sights all around the New London/Mystic area. and tankers of the working American waterfront. the last American clipper ship built in San – ships of the French line, Italian line, American The Whale Trail, as it was known, was a great Wherever he went, he could be found sketchbook Francisco, the Western Shore, 1879 and the world’s export, etc. One of Bill’s early jobs was a hands-on success. But now that it’s all over we wonder, in hand documenting the hardworking ships of first five masted schooner, the Lewis, 1888; the job of repairing these models of liners, so he really “Where have all the whales gone.” Try thewhal- commercial seafaring America. first four masted bald head schooner Novelty of got to study them in detail. etrail.com to find out. 1886, and the first four masted barkentine built on From Australia we hear from Dean Claffin of the Speaking of whales, well-known California whale Another member of the CoGap Program, American the West Coast, the , 1890. We’ll Willy R. Shune exhibition by members of the Australian Society sculptor, Randy Puckett, has really been busy this Society of Marine Artists past president Bob keep you posted on actual publication dates. But of Marine Artists held this winter at the Mosman last quarter. He’s released three new . Semler has been commissioned by the Class of it’s remarkable still that just when we think we Art Gallery Civic Center to great success. They One entitled “Rhythm and Blues” featuring a blue 1950 at the Coast Guard Academy to paint a have access to everything, new discoveries con - also announce the start up of their own Web site, whale cow and calf. Blue whales are the largest large to adorn one of the walls of the new tinue to be made everyday in the maritime field. museum to be built on the Academy grounds in marineartistsaustralia.com.au. animals on the earth (or in the ocean) today, Seattle, Washington will be site of a one man reaching lengths well over 100 feet and weighing New London, Connecticut. Measuring 30” x 50”, We had our own blast from “down under” last fall exhibition this spring of the work of Mark Myers in excess of 160 tons. His is 10”x13”x8” Bob’s painting is the training ship Eagle under full with a visit by New Zealand’s leading maritime at the Kirsten Gallery, continuing Mark’s previ and sells for $1,800. As Randy often does, he sail. He’ll depict her the way she appeared between - painter A.D. Blake and his wife Fiona. A special 1947 and 1950 without the stripe and with a split ous investigations into the early exploration and offered early purchasers (before January 1) a exhibition of five of Tony’s brand new paintings chance to buy the sculpture for $1,200 while mak- spanker. It will be unveiled at the next homecom- trade along the northwest coast. His art is based on was held at J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in firsthand accounts, i.e. Captain’s log books and ing a $600 donation to any of nine non-profit ing. As a part of the CoGap Program, Bob has Fairfield, Connecticut. Tony gave a presentation on personal letters, of the earliest Spanish, British, Dimetrious Athas Tight Around the Mark Oil on Panel 18” x 24” $13,500 organizations including the American Cetacean donated seven paintings to the Coast Guard’s per- his philosophy and technique of painting showing American and Russian sailors who sailed along Society, Salvation Army, Ocean Alliance and manent collection over the years. us a painting of Vigilant leading Istalena at the and landed on the northwest coast in the early 18th Over the past 15 years, a relatively a short period of Chesapeake and HMS Shannon June 11, 1813 is one the American Red Cross. He’s also offered to finish of the Astor Cup, August 8, 1908 from incep- Out in San Francisco this April they’ll be honor- and 19th time, he’s really made his mark on the contemporary of the most famous naval directives of all time, which donate one of his “Sneak Peek” sculptures of a centuries. The exhibition will run from tion to the drawing process and the painting pro- ing one of their own chroniclers of the waterfront, marine art scene. His paintings are now selling in still inspires American sailors even today. You also grey whale, which was originally released in 2003 May 21-June 25. For more information contact cess. It was a fascinating afternoon. Tony is an William A. Coulter (1849-1936) with an exhibi- the $35-$50,000 range on a regular basis. He’s been learned that Bill is a passionate collector of other to help support a school in El Centro in Baja, kirstengallery.com. example of a marine artist who came not from the tion that will open on April 18, the 100th anniver- commissioned by the New York Yacht Club and important works of art from Frederic Remington California that the Monterey Bay Chapter of the Steamboat and liner buffs should look for a book on field of training in art (in fact, he was a trained sary of the 1906 quake and fire, under the sponsor- Herreshoff Maritime Museum among others. In and Charles Russell to Cezanne, Renoir, Monet American Cetacean Society has adopted (visit the paintings of William G. Muller later this year, engineer), but through his love and knowledge of ship of Paul and Linda Kahn Foundation and fact, one of his paintings is being used on the and Picasso and Matisse. His collection even them at starrsites.com/acsmb). This is the village long considered the dean of New York harbor and the sea—like Van de Velde the elder, the son of a the San Francisco National Maritime Historic current edition of the Herreshoff of Bristol, the story includes the hunting rifle of General Custer, and the where fishermen take visitors into the San Ignacio Hudson River painters. Many people don’t know ship captain—he discovered his own talent as a Park Association. The exhibition will be held at of legendary American naval architect Nathaniel gun that killed outlaw Jesse James. lagoon when the grey whales gather there to calf. that Bill actually served as a pilot aboard the last painter. This knowledge helped ensure the incred- the 4,500 sq. ft. gallery space in the Park’s visitors Herreshoff and his manufacturing company. Randy’s sculpture is based on a whale that he saw One interesting sideline was that the yachts outside center, and will feature some 200 paintings and Hudson River Dayliner, the Alexander Hamilton. ible accuracy and life-like quality of his paintings. while visiting the lagoon with the Linblad Sweden is the most recent subject of the paintings the museum were fitted with FAA aircraft warning drawings which have been borrowed from private Expedition several years ago. The Society is selling of Charleston-based marine artist West Fraser. lights atop their mass, and lightning rods running to collections and museums, like the U.S. Merchant raffle tickets at $5.00 each. They will announce West spent six weeks there this past summer with the ground. In fact, the Boston city code required Marine Museum in King’s Point, New York, and it their winner at their meeting at the Hopkins his wife Helena. You can read more about his that they would be able to withstand sustained will include Coulter’s 10 ft. long painting of the San Marine Station in Pacific Grove February 23. work in the October 2005 issue of Charleston winds of 90 miles per hour and a three second blast Francisco fire, painted in 1906 during the actual magazine. In nearby is the town of of 110 miles per hour before they would actually Randy is also contributing half of the proceeds of event. Coulter was an Irishman who served in the Skagen in northern Jutland. It’s there that a whole allow them to be on display. Overall, it was a remark- any of his sculptures sold at the Whale Quest British Merchant Marine for seven years, and later group of painters found their inspiration and able exhibit by a passionate maritime collector. event in Kapalua, Hawaii, February 10, 11 and 12 arrived in San Francisco in 1869, where he chron- founded their own artist colony in 1908, built by to researchers working on humpback whale icled the maritime history of the West Coast and The Chesapeake Bay was the site of a lot of painters Peder Koroyer, Holger Drachmann research in Maui, Hawaii. The weekend will be a San Francisco Bay as it unfolded before him daily. marine art activity last year. From the paintings of and Anna and Michael Ancher. They painted the Continued on page 26 During those years he was the waterfront artist for watercolorist Pam Pahl, one of which she donated natural beauty of coastal Denmark and the fishing the San Francisco Call newspaper, supplying them to the Great Schooner Rig group to support the community they lived in. Their paintings can be with drawings of ships entering and leaving the Save the Bay Foundation. Her schooner race seen today at Skagens Museum, or on the Web at harbor. The exhibition has been organized and paintings and others were also the focus of a exhi- skagensmuseum.dk. curated by Marcus de Chevrieux, who is also the bition at the Eliot Museum in Stuart, Florida curator at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum If you were strolling down the street in Boston last from November through January. in Newport Beach, California and of the Kelton fall near the Museum of Fine Arts you may have The Annapolis Yacht Club’s Wednesday night Foundation. This will be one of the most impor- been astounded to see two actual America’s Cup race is the subject of John Barber’s newest paint- tant exhibitions of West Coast maritime art held in yachts fully rigged heeled over ever so gently right ing and print titled “Twilight Finish.” It shows the a long time. Marcus also has plans to organize an outside the entrance of the Museum. If you recog- clubhouse and other landmarks of historic exhibition of Coulter’s modern day heir, David nized America 3 and Il Moro, the defender and the Annapolis against the warm golden twilight. Thimgan, who chronicled West Coast maritime challenger of the 1992 America’s Cup, you would Members of the fleet of J-30s are quietly ghosting history for the last 30 years until his untimely have been correct. Inside the Museum was an to the finish line off the docks of the club. The print death a year and a half ago. exhibition entitled “The Things I Love: The many measures 13”x28” and sells for $125. John kicked Collections of William I. Koch,” (who was winner of it off with the help of Gary Jobson who was on Marcus also tells us that in conjunction with the the Cup aboard America 3), featuring nearly 200 hand signing copies of Virginia Pearl’s new print Kelton Foundation Collection, he’s formed an excit- works of art, including Bill’s extensive collection of “Yacht Clubs of Annapolis” at the Annapolis ing new online museum presence blueworldweb- marine paintings by Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane, Marine Gallery in October. museum.org, featuring 97 paintings from the Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Winslow Homer, extensive Collection, and an online exhibition and his entire collection of ship models and half Another Chesapeake based watercolorist Marc under the heading “What’s In a Maritime Painting.” models of every challenger and defender of the Castelli’s paintings of the Bay’s watermen at work Through it you are able to look at these paintings America’s Cup since the first race in 1851. Many aboard the classic, sail powered fishing skipjacks from a variety of different angles. Marcus says that people don’t know that Bill is also a descendant of of the Bay were featured on the cover and accom- the Thimgan exhibit may take the form of this Captain James Lawrence who’s battle cry, “Don’t panying article of Autumn 2005 Maritime Life and online exhibition. Robert Sticker U.S.S. VIXEN, 1803 Oil on Panel 15¾” x 17¼” $7,500 give up the ship” during the battle of the USS Traditions magazine. Randy Puckett Blitzen (Steno Dolphin) 24 25 Bronze Edition of 350 12” x 8½” x 8” $1,500 Continued from page 25 three-day event of whale talks, University in North Carolina. whale watches, pictures, videos, Whaling is also the subject of Frederic Schiller Cozzens (1846-1928) book signings and art exhibits. master scrimshander Robert More information can be found Weiss’s latest project. He’s A look around the walls of almost any yacht club in America inevitably reveals the presence of at by calling the event chairwom- doing a private commission on a least one yacht racing chromolithograph by New York artist Frederic Cozzens. Twenty-seven of these an, Nancy Cross, 808-669-2440. huge matched pair of teeth, I think that’s enough for one each weighing three pounds, yachting lithographs were published by Scribners in 1884 to accompany Lt. J.D. Kelley’s definitive guy to do. But no, there’s more. measuring 10” long, which he’ll book of that time American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races. But as well-known as these prints are, He’s just finished his newest cover on all sides with scenes sculpture entitled “Blixen” from Herman Melville’s classic they represent only a small portion of his marine output. For fifty years he actively chronicled the depicting a single, steno or novel Moby Dick. rough-toothed dolphin. Why a commercial ships and pleasure yachts that filled New York Harbor. His work appeared regularly in steno? Randy says, “Stenos Bill Gilkerson is another artist have always been among my who is also one of the world’s the Daily Graphic and Harper Weekly from mid 1870-1898. A yachtsman himself, he was respected favorite dolphin. They look pre- leading authorities on a number for the accurateness and the realism of his paintings which today help preserve the history of the historic, like something left of subjects from whaling to 18th over from an earlier age. Totally century armaments, warships world’s busiest harbors. Here are a few examples from a collection that has recently come into the Jim Griffiths American Clipper Ship WITCH OF THE WAVE Outbound, in 1854 unlike any other dolphin in and pirates. He’s the author of marketplace. For more information call 203-259-8753. appearance.” The particular Gouache 12½” x 19” $3,750 American Whalers in the Western steno that he has chosen to Although the homeport of the extreme clipper Witch of the Wave was Salem, MA, (thus Arctic, and ten other books depict, Blixen, is named after the witch reference) she was built for a cost of $80,000 at the yard of George Raynes including, The Scrimshander, one that was rescued, treated in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and launched on April 6, 1851. Measuring 220 feet on The Ships of John Paul Jones, and released back into the wild deck she had staterooms for her officers and seven passengers—even a 100-volume Boarders Away and Ultimate by the Mote Marine Laboratory library. She left Boston on her maiden voyage May 20, 1851 and made the passage to Voyage. He reports that the early of Sarasota, Florida in 1998. It San Francisco in 123 days. In the ensuing years she called at Whampoa, Hong Kong, reactions to his newest novel Singapore, London, and New York. Her passage from Calcutta on July 3, 1853 to Boston Pirates Passage are rave reviews. was one of two steno dolphins in 81 days is a record that still stands today. The London Shipping Gazette describes her out of 60 that survived the arrival in London as follows, “She worked up the English Channel to windward of 400 (See our book page) In fact he stranding on the Florida sail of vessels and not a ship could keep up with her.” The London Times observed, “The says he’s “never gotten a Panhandle Christmas of 1997. Witch of the Wave has brought one of the most valuable cargoes of tea that has ever response like this.” It’s worth The sculpture measures 12”h x entered London, 19,000 chests of the first quality. She is the subject of much interest noting that in a break from tra- 8½”w x 8”d, made in an edition as she lies at the dock. Her bows are similar to those of a large cutter yacht” Griffiths’ dition, Wooden Boat magazine, of 350. It will be officially released painting gives us a good look at the beauty of her lines and the magnificent sight she which normally never reviews in May at the price of $1,500. But must have been underway. works of fiction, will be review- prior to that, Randy is making it ing this new book in the near available for $800 providing future. Pirate’s Passage is illus- that the purchaser makes a contribution of $400 talents to another good cause—a special healing trated with many drawings by or more to the Mote Marine Laboratory. More garden for those dealing with breast cancer, spon- Bill, some of which are featured in this issue. His information can be had by calling 203-259-8753. sored by the wife of the owner of the Tommy next, and thirteenth book, Gilkerson’s Book of Like many artists, Randy’s personal passions and Bahamas clothing line. The Garden of Hope and Pirates will be a picture book featuring 50 of Bill’s artistic life are intertwined. And he certainly puts Courage is being designed as a place where people paintings of pirates and pirate ships. Arrg matey! his money where his mouth is, helping to add in Miami can retreat when they are undergoing beauty to the world and to support the causes that chemotherapy. It will feature Kathy’s life-size That’s all the room for are important to him. bronze sculptures of sea turtles and gators, and now – but keep those another 40-foot fish piece spiraling up in the air. A cards, letters, and yes, Schooner Yacht off Sandy Hook Light Signed Lower Left, 1911 Watercolor 17” x 25” $5,000 In Florida, sculptor Kathy Spalding is lending her second healing garden is planned for Duke e-mails coming in.

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