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  Wednesday  March 10  2004    10: 14 AM

griff's story

Good news for those that have been following Griff's Story, the website on my grandfather. I have been putting scans, from the books, of his paintings on the website. Color reproduction from the 1940s isn't the quality I would like, but that is all that I have. There are a number of paintings that I only have black and white electro-static copies. They were in the package that Gale Munro, of the Naval Historical Center, sent to my sister, Madelane, almost 10 years ago. As I mentioned earlier, Madelane and I are planning a trip back to the wrong Washington (D.C.) to see the paintings and make copy negs. I figured that the Naval Historical Center already has some, so I called them. I just got of the phone with Gale Munro and they have made 4x5 copy negs of many of his paintings (there are 53) and have scanned the negs. She is sending me a CD with what they have. That should, at least, give me some improved pictures to put up. The long term goal is to be able to make high quality inkjet prints available of all his Navy paintings. I'm excited.