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 a WWII veteran. His trophy Phi Beta Kappa wife, my mom, taught Pediatrics at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania, was Dr. Nelson's 1st editor of Nelson's North American Pediatrics, etc. etc.

Weekdays she drove me to the Junior Curators Club at The Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University (It was ANSP, 'of Philadelphia', the oldest in the Western Hemisphere); I'd just turned 5 ylo and was already a budding young scientist. My playmate, son of our DVM, went to MIT in physics at 10 y/o; He taught me to shoot, fish, trap, collect stamps, watch Casey Stengel and the Yankees at the Phillies' Connie Mack, ... We were virtually inseparable. He exemplified disciplined curiosity.

His parents exemplified marriage.

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

It was a retreat from business.

"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 studied Shaolin Kung Fu, raced road and track bicycles, ran 10ks, studied NLP, and grazed in research libraries. Nope, I didn't go to Royal College of Art, ... I required a different kind of classroom without walls.

"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 family patriarch sailed into Baltimore 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.

"I wanted to paint: A rower on the Schuylkill, America's Cup training in the Bay, throwing a tight loop on a Tongass stream, the NCHA cutting horses at Will Rogers in Fort Worth, Shaqcasso or,

a lighthouse on a Starry Night, ...

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

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(Rainy, snowy, coastal living with black and brown bears, but no snakes)