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TRUCKERS' STORY * USA
* $5 purchase may make her fortune
Teri Horton, a former over-the-road truck driver now in her 70s, picked up a “splatter painting” at a San Bernardino, Calif., thrift store for $5 as a joke gift for a friend. She now believes it’s worth millions... USA -eTrucker, by By Todd Dills -10 May 2007: -- Horton believes the painting may be the work of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, who rose to fame in the 1940s and ‘50s. An alcoholic, Pollock was notorious for impulsively giving paintings away or throwing them into trash dumps... Forensics expert Paul Biro has been able to match a fingerprint in the paint on the canvas to fingerprints in Pollock’s preserved East Hampton, N.Y., studio – which, in his life, almost no one but Pollock ever entered -- but many in the art world still consider Horton’s canvas to be the work of an amateur. Still, Cooper reported, Horton has turned down at least one offer of $2 million for the painting, believing it was too small a figure... (Photo courtesy Picturehouse: Teri Horton in the documentary ""Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?")
* Ex-DOT worker looks back at 36 years on the roads
Bethel,CT,USA -The News Time Live (Danbury,CT), by John Pirro -14 May 2007: -- Ted Visconti spent 36 years working for the state Department of Transportation before retiring in March... Ted remembers the days when the state Department of Transportation tree trimmers hung like Christmas ornaments from the big sycamore at the intersection of routes 53 and 302... He also remembers when the junior man on a snowplow crew had to brace himself on the sloping bed of a moving dump truck and shovel sand through a hole in the tailgate... And when workers used hand scythes to cut the grass alongside the highway...
Bethel,CT,USA -The News Time Live (Danbury,CT), by John Pirro -14 May 2007: -- Ted Visconti spent 36 years working for the state Department of Transportation before retiring in March... Ted remembers the days when the state Department of Transportation tree trimmers hung like Christmas ornaments from the big sycamore at the intersection of routes 53 and 302... He also remembers when the junior man on a snowplow crew had to brace himself on the sloping bed of a moving dump truck and shovel sand through a hole in the tailgate... And when workers used hand scythes to cut the grass alongside the highway...
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