I began letterpress printing in the 1950's having been taught the art at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City. My interest in letterpress continued in college where I was printer at Yale's Timothy Dwight College in the late 1950's. At Yale I was a member of the Honorable Company of College Printers and Printer to the College.

 

Printer's ink gets in your blood and I eventually acquired my own 8 x 12 C & P and a large number of cases of type from fading newspaper operations in Tennessee (where I was a college professor in architecture and city planning).

 

I have three daughters, one of whom writes fine poetry and I have set her work in type. I now live in Asheville, North Carolina, and have set up my press here in anticipation of happy retirement days printing broadsides and keepsakes.