📌 Carroll IS A HEALER in the universal language of art.

At first art was a means to self-healing after his sister's death.

THE COMMON ROADSIDE WEED, PURPLE THISTLES,

LAUNCHED HIS WATERCOLOR (WC) STUDIES.

"... Go figure, I left a Master's program (Entomology at UGA), a Doctoral program (Ecology at DE), and two MBA programs in Texas with class leading A's. I enjoy grazing in research libraries! I gave over 500 keynotes in the first year when I returned to Dallas, Texas from Castilian Spain. A multilingual Colonial Brazilian heiress, schooled in England, arranged my painting studies with famed European, Don Fco. Alcaraz, a prodigy artist who refused compensation -

I studied to be a scientist not an artist.

CARROLL'S FAMILY HISTORY

"My family name is probably Norwegian, Burgundian, in origin.

They conquered most of Europe. Today, the Kingdom of the Burgunds has shrunk to Burgundy, France and Switzerland. In 1740, Johannes Jacobus Burgund left Burgundy, France, boarded the Lydia and sailed to Baltimore, Maryland as John Jacob Burgoon. He settled in what became Carroll County, MD, named for the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. One of his sons enlisted with General George Washington. I don't know if he encamped in the fields on Rebel Hill, where we lived before moving to Chester Springs, near Valley Forge (NP) - A resort town where Washington's Army hospital was located. His son moved to Fort Worth, Texas from Burgoonville, Ohio. Shortly after, his boy moved to wild Denton, Texas. Burgoon's fought in every American war except the Texas War for Independence from Mexico.

I flew west to Texas on June 4, 1984.

CARROLL'S IMMEDIATE FAMILY

"I grew up in the 1751 fieldstone mansion on the road from Valley Forge to Gen Washington's Continental Army hospital. My doctor dad had been a front page running back and 440 runner in high school and in the Third Tide on Dog Green, the deadliest beach on D-Day. (I was a sprinter). Then, he was deployed as chief medical officer on APD-78, USS Bull, in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Then, Pop was sought by Hall of Fame pro athletes, other doctors, the world's richest, and blue-collar workers. His PBK wife worked beside him. The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built a specialty hospital for him. He made it #1 in the world. 90 to 140 patients, six days a week, sat 2 hours in his waiting room to be seen by him. Pop enjoyed, 'The fine art of medicine' and was a volunteer at CVIM until his death at age 91.

"My dad demanded flawless excellence AND expected immediate virtuosity. Things were First Rate, with the GOAT passion of #10 Messi, Federer, MJ, Hamilton, Prefontaine,

'The Horse Whisperer,' Wyoming's Buck Brannman and

stand-alone pro bicyclist, Eddy Merckx". 

« Je vois et je peins ce que les autres ne voient pas. »

Norwegian: "Jeg ser og maler det andre ikke ser".