Galen Vinson

galen.vinson@t-online.de

married 1969 to my first wife (annette) bought and rented out appartments and houses in berkeley. 1979 moved with my now ex to st. louis. 1981 filed divorce and moved to germany where I have been since. Met my present wife and married two years later (1983) Worked for first two years by the americans (military) and after marrying i was able to work for the germans, which i promptly did. Worked in a german printshop and had my own printing and graphics business at home serving primarily the american military. Spent these years as the eternal tourist, drawing, photographing, and publishing a few books on the history of this area. Work together with a man who runs the archive for our town (Obernbreit) and spent alot of time digitalizing old books and documents. Preserving history. I am considered the town photograph (sometimes narr) I shoot weddings, etc here... work for the luthern church next door to us. Moving to germany was the best move i have ever made. My property taxes are about 79 euros a year, medical insurance is approximately 6 percent of the retirement income. Anyone interested in germany, or italy, i have a very large library of photos which i can copy and mail. I have had about 40 art exhibitions since i have been here and several photo exhibitions. I am curious what my fellow classmates have been upto all these years. Please forgive my lousy english, but after 31 years in germany you lose it.

uninteresting, but the best education came after the schooling. And has never stopped. Am presently working on and repairing old clocks. A hobby i did in berkeley but restarted here in the last year. Unfortunately the mechanical clocks which I so love have stopped being made, and almost everything outside of very expensive grandfather clocks and the like have batteries. No soul... Getting parts for these clocks is difficult at best and i am forced to make many parts myself. One never stops learning (at least i hope). Cogito, ergo sum...