Imagination-Building: The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes (1910 - 2018), First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia - John Douglas Forbes - Bog

The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes encompass watching the streetlamp lighters of San Francisco in 1912, to visiting the Royal Crescent in Bath in 2001, among many other memories. Art curator, educator, First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia; hiker, kite flyer and traveler, who made a second family with the new wife he found through placing a Personal Ad in a magazine after becoming a widower --- John Douglas Forbes followed an unusual path. M.E. Forbes, in An Afterword to the Memoirs, speaks of the 38-year "May-December" journey she shared with Dr. Forbes.