ANSWERS TO FAQs

"I did not ride on my dad's shirttails.

I made it on my own.

"My world known doctor dad, son of a banker, demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. He was an active battlefield doctor on D-Day and in the Pacific.

My PBK mom was also a doctor.

"I grew up playing in the woodland stream at our 1751 fieldstone built by Griffith Jones. My parents didn't want a showpiece but got that anyway.

"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs, BUT grazed in research libraries.

"Nope, I didn't go to the Royal College of Art --- I required a different kind of classroom.

"I'm curious and no history buff. I was named after my dad and his dad in honor of our next-door neighbor, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of our Declaration of Independence,

July 4, 1776. Our newly wed patriarch, a cordwainer, sailed into Baltimore, MD from Alsace-Lorraine, France in 1740.

"A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Metropolitan, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr., ... An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get first pick after I returned to Texas.

I was invited to Four-star General William Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary on Queen Mary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two knight commanders of the Knights of Malta,

who reported to the Pope in Rome.

I got letters from Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Juan Carlos 1 The King of Spain, ... Bob Hope's wife Delores Hope.

"A global business owner apprised me,

'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.'  You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's $350+ million Salvator Mundi

bought by a Saudi Crown Prince in 2017.

"My oeuvre of 750 to 1,000 works began in memory of Helen. I moved on.

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