📌 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.

Many First Rate Teachers

"An interior decorator redecorated her office around 40+ of my originals and brought the bride of her #1 client to see the collection; Her friend bought my art!!! as did a PGA & Open champion's bride and a Big Pharma heiress and a booze king's daughter. Arts patron Mrs. Kitsy Westmoreland had her son take her picture with me at a black tie aboard the Queen Mary, amidst 40 MOHs, where a Knight Commander, Knights of Malta, who reported to the Pope, invited me to join his cadre of Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Soviet/Russian Gorbachev and South American heads of state ... Go figure, I did not take a graduate school entrance exam, BUT 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. (The 2nd was at the University of Texas-Dallas, UT-D) 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 Colonial Brazilian heiress arranged my painting studies with the famed European, Don Francisco Alcaraz, prodigy artist who refused any compensation - He just wanted to refine my artistry. Toastmaster Pauline Shirley, DTM, DG in what became the world #1-ranked district, and later a HOF PIP had coached me - I received a congratulatory note from George H.W. Bush, the White House, Wash., D.C. when I was named 'Rookie of the Year'. I am a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and received a surprise Sigma Xi research stipend for what became my undergrad Mayfly Honor's Thesis, made so entirely by my Biology Professor Dr. Myron 'Black Mike' Anderson.

I never studied art, nor did I plan to be an artist.

I was a scientist.

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; My next-door neighbor was the lead scientist on Star Wars, a MENSA president with a 220 IQ and married a quilter, poet/author and former Aussie school teacher. Paul could read a complex 4,000-page book in one hour and told me verbatim what was on any line and any page. They were wordsmiths, happy and mountains of fun.

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 ran a 4:08 mile and a 31:57 10k, for 22nd! I was a much better sprint bicyclist on the banked track and was Alternate to U.S. Nationals as a newbie Cat 3 bike racer). I imagine he was cursed triaging amidst moans and cries for help, and charred, smoldering bodies, sticky blood soaking his clothes and death filling his nostrils. He said he felt like a 'Stupid, worthless bastard' on the battlefield. Poppy deployed as chief medical officer on APD-78, USS Bull, in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, strategic Japanese islands. Pop was sought by Hall of Fame pro athletes, other doctors, the world's richest, and blue-collar workers. He was a humble man. 90 to 140 patients six days a week sat for 2 to 3 hours in his waiting room just to be seen by him.

Pop thoroughly enjoyed what he termed,

'The fine art of medicine'.

The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built

a specialty hospital for him"!

"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".