"Color was always of utmost importance to our family. Great grandfather's father's father discovered that the pigments along the banks of the river produced vibrant colors and he produced painting after painting of grapes and peaches and still lifes that always included a glass of red wine.

"Red Harry, who was grandfather's father's father's son, was so-named because he discovered a virulent carmine that settled just along the silty edge of the river where the the great slapping silver fish mated and died each spring."