What happened to all those paintings of the ocean? I suppose they were not "important", but I remember the intensity of the waves and the long hours he spent on painting the white surf. Do some still hang in Cape Cod vacation homes?

I read in the Times that in New York an arts administrator rescued an historic painting from a trash can, and I imagined a Lewis H. seascape protruding from a trashcan on Charles Street in Boston while throngs of people walked by without stopping to look.

When Susan left, I was suddenly lonely.

 
 
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