The only research that bore fruit was a call to Luigi Silvestri. The ESTEEMED Luigi Silvestri of A. Silvestri Company in South San Francisco. I interrupted his lunch, but he told me that the sculptor’s name is Alberto Milani, a master Italian stone carver, no longer living. Luigi knows a lot about Italian sculpture and…
Archives for March 2011
A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR or there’s no place like home…
“The days of the Gold Rush had long passed when the earth yielded yet another treasure. This time in the form of “potter’s clay” in Lincoln, California. In the fall of 1874 Charles Gladding of Chicago was visiting California when he read the news of the clay find. He traveled to Lincoln, took samples of…
COUNTDOWN…
We ARE holding our collective breath…Brent has been going to San Rafael each week with merchandise, the container from Terrecotte San Rocco is unloaded and stacked and the Northern California corps (yes, a group of people united by a common purpose: maybe we’ll call it the Brentcorps) is pretty much up to speed on perfect…