Keeping a 40-year-old promise

“I want to buy that picture.” That unsolicited statement was an unexpected beam of hope in what was one of my dreariest, most miserable days this summer.  One of my blog readers actually wanted to purchase my diamond-framed picture of Nipper’s Polar Panorama – the one that I exhibited at the “you didn’t win anything,…

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A report from Albany Med, 40 years later

In 1970, my baby brother Allen Miller was critically injured in a car crash. Now, with information recently acquired from Albany Medical Center, I can now piece together what happened at the accident and upon Allen’s arrival at the hospital.

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The Tragedy of February 20, 1970

There are five children in this photograph, a still gleaned from a 1969 8mm home movie.  I am the tallest, and am standing on the far left.  My brother John Kennedy Miller, known at that time as “Jay,” stands next to me.  My younger brother Allen Michael Miller is in the middle, and my sister…

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