Finding my father’s sketchbooks

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Because I was determined not to move junk and clutter and things that should have been thrown out years ago, I tried to sift through as many old boxes, sacks, and dresser drawers as I could back in Wisconsin. In the back of a drawer in my father’s room, I found a stack of sketchbooks dating from the late 1940s and 1950s. We had thought all but six of his 60 years of drawings had burned in my parents’ house fire in 2004, so turning these up is very precious! We still ended up moving a lot of junk and clutter and things that should have been thrown out years ago . . .