(Apparently the hospital sent Elaine home too soon.  She asked to go back and let them make her feel better.  So, I get to miss her some more.)

Meanwhile, here are some more items from my hidden files.

01.  Naughty Name?

A very conservative Vancouver building council blocked the lease of a restaurant property to the "Fish and Chips" chain "Moby Dick's," because of its name.

02.  Famous Home-town Boy

The town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts is known for its shipbuilding during whaling days, for its landmark desalination efforts, and for the birth of the massive Vaughan family.

One non-Vaughan-family Mattapoisett genius made his way in the art world.  Francis Davis Millet was born in 1846 and had many interests and  occupations.

At the age of 15, he entered the Union Army along with some Vaughan boys.  He enlisted with them in the Massachusetts Regiment as drummer boys. He later became Acting Assistant Contract Surgeon, assisting his father, a surgeon during the Civil War.

After the war he studied at Harvard and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in literature.  He then became a reporter for The Boston Advertiser and edited The Courier and the Saturday Evening Gazette.

During this time, he became an expert in lithography, winning 9 of the 11 prizes awarded by the Royal Academy in Antwerp, Belgium.

Here are some other activities he was involved in:

Correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Exhibition.

Painter of murals at Trinity Church in Boston.

Painter of a portrait of his friend, Mark Twain.

War correspondent in the Russo-Turkish War.

Work on The London Daily News.

Work on The London Graphic.

Receipt of medals from both Russia and Rumania.

Appointment as Fine Arts Juror for the Paris International Exhibition.

Lived in an artists' colony.

Wrote a book.  "The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black See (1892.)"

Did sculpture.

Continued painting.

Invented the world's first spray paint.

Became a trustee for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Helped create the American Federation of Art.

Served in 1911 in Paris and Rome representing The American Academy.

Booked 1912 passage home with his friend, John Jacob Astor IV on THE TITANIC!

Helped get women and children into lifeboats and waved as the massive ship sank with him aboard. 

 RIP

What a Life!

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Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), by Frank Millet, 1877.