Present Moment

Who are you? What did you look like as a child?  (Taken with a polaroid camera) What is your main character? What inspires you? What do you normally take pictures of? What do you love about photography? If you weren't a photographer, what would you be? What is the first thing you touch in the morning? What is your favorite photograph?  (Taken with a Brownie Box Camera) Share a secret about you or your best friend? What is the meaning of life?

Part 1: What moment do you most wish you had a photograph of? “Haircut Day” When, I was a young boy, I use to take the bus from my home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts into the city of Worcester to get my “Ivy League” haircut from Martin the barber.   The bus cost 15 cents and the haircut cost 90 cents, which gives you an idea of the time period of this event.   I would get off the bus at the Worcester Bus Station next to the Worcester Common and run across the common to reach my father’s office located in the Mechanics Building on Main Street downtown.   Entering the building, I knew when I was getting close to my Dad’s office by the smell of cigar smoke drifting in the hallway.   My grandfather smoked cigars and Dad smoked a pipe.    They worked together at the Atwell Company and sold dictation machines.   Their names were painted in gold letters on the glass window of their office door, Arthur L. Sullivan and Larry Sullivan.   My Dad’s name...

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