Another thing Patrick Fennell and Steven Fennell, I cant put a figure on is the amount of odds and ends of PRINTING EQUIPMENT that is in the attic of that house. Gee, I was only working in the bowels of the PRINTING INDUSTRY for 35 years and built the world around me because of it, and Im damn proud of what PRINTING has helped me become. You guys know that it would be my fathers dying wish for me to have all of that printing equipment which also includes a MULTIGRAPH MACHINE! I realize that the general public wouldnt have a clue what that item is, but the three of us know that it is a big part of PRINTING HISTORY!Type cases! And Wooden Type! Nuts and Quads! And the City of Saco Attorney thinks that stuff is theirs? Now my Dad, GEORGE S. ANGE, was a pretty well known character in the Saco community for the 40 years he taught PRINTING at THORNTON ACADEMY. He influenced a whole lot of students to further their careers in the INDUSTRIAL ARTS where some of our FELLOW STUDENTS are more naturally inclined, rather than the Academics. My father influenced ME that way also. And, obviously, my long time friends Patrick Fennell and his brother Steven Fennell. Not to toot my own horn (too much) but through some good fortune and being in the right place at the right time I worked for two particular PRINTING companies in the State of Maine who sent me to a premium level as an OFFSET PRINTING PRESS OPERATOR. It was through my being a member of THE LEETHER PRESS in Yarmouth Maine (70s), and THE ANTHOENSEN PRESS in Portland Maine (80s), that I have produced PRINTED WORKS OF ART for cultural icons such as THE METROPOLITAN in NYC, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Boston, THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, THE PORTLAND LANDMARKS, THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THE SALEM MUSEUM, The BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM in Brunswick, THE PAYSON GALLERY in Portland, and the list goes on. All of these accomplishments due to my father bringing me to the THORNTON ACADEMY PRINT SHOP, starting in (approximately) 1965 when I was eight years old to set cold type by hand, lock it in a chase, put the chase in the press, dab some ink on the platen, and print pocket THORNTON ACADEMY SPORTS SCHEDULES on the motorized Chandler and Price LETTERPRESS! As I mention my accomplishments in the PRINTING INDUSTRY, I cant help but not make mention of people who helped me produce those works of PRINTED ART like: David C. Wolfe, Ed Hill, Peter Schutte, Scott Vile, Gary Stratton (when he was a cameraman), Normand Collins, David Hayden (when he was a cameraman), Jason Binette (when he gave me a hand as a fellow pressman), Andrew Purcell when he did the same, John Amoroso (for his lifetime of presswork), and not to the least, Don Carini who stepped aside and let me use his press to produce my greatest piece of PRINTED ART : A Birds Eye View Map of Portsmouth: a two color, 400 line screen reproduction of an 1877 lithograph I did for THE PORTSMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY in 1992. With fade-proof ink on acid-free paper. So to all of my FACEBOK FRIENDS, and your friends, and your friends friends, Lets all pray for the greedy people in the world, for they have no time to pray for themselves. And when you ride by my parents house on 42 Fairfield Street in Saco, think about, if you will, the history belonging to my Dad who lived there for 50 years and walked across the street EVERY DAY to his second home THORNTON ACADEMY (because I bet none of you can remember him taking a day off, I cant) and the legacy he left behind when he passed away on his 1st grandsons birthday on December 13, 2007. And decide who YOU think that PRINTING EQUIPMENT belongs to. Maybe theyll give me first dibs to buy it back?
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:30:59 +0000
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