Margaret Benninger, who has since passed on, actually gave a talk on Glenn? Hawkinson (or something like that.) Hawkinson was an artist who lived in Tremont and also was a big dunes supporter. Margaret pronounced Hawkinson as "ðððððððð" so I had my mom, who owned a ðððððððð dune scene, take it to Margaret's talk. Benninger had a bunch of Hawkinson's works up on display so we could tell immediately that it was a different artist.

George Svihla, who was our newsletter editor at the time, also assumed that Margaret had beens saying "ðððððððð" at our earlier board meeting, which is why it appeared that way in the newsletter. Someone mentioned later than ððððð ðððððððð had lived in the Miller portion of Gary.

Here's something an earlier inquirer wrote to me: "I met a man out at Lake Michigan two weeks ago while I was doing an oil painting. He told me about his grandfather whose name was ððððð ðððððððð. ððððð, he said had devoted a good amount of energy to painting the dunes. Evidently ððððð was concerned about saving the dunes before many people had even given it a thought. He used his art to call attention to the problem." He knew more than we did.

Steve Spicer, who has very informative Web-pages about Miller, contacted the Lake Street Gallery's Joyce and passed along someone's following comment: "The only information I have on Mr ðððððððð is through information my elderly parents have told me and I'm unsure how accurate that information might be. My parents said that Mr. ðððððððð's paintings were displayed in the Gary Memorial Auditorium just prior to the fire that swept through that part of town. When the fire occured all of the paintings were destroyed."

That's it. That's all we know. I wish each of you the best in your search for more info about ðððððððð and your paintings.

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Web-published 13th September, 1999. Last updated 25th September, 2005.