"Don't you know who I am?!?
ANSWERS TO FAQs
"My world known doctor dad, son of a banker, demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. He was an active battlefield doctor on D-Day and in the Pacific. My PBK mom was also a doctor. They signed me up in the Junior Curators Club at the Academy of Natural Sciences when I was 5 y/o.
I was a budding young scientist who
played in the woodland stream
at our 3-story fieldstone home built
by Welshman Griffith Jones in 1751.
I blazed my own path.
"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs, BUT grazed in research libraries. Nope, I didn't go to the Royal College of Art ---
SCAD, Yale, SAIC or Rhode Island,
But a much rarer classroom.
"I'm curious but no history buff. I was named after my dad and his dad in honor of our next-door neighbor, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of our Declaration of Independence,
July 4, 1776. Our newly wed patriarch, a cordwainer, sailed into Baltimore, MD from Alsace-Lorraine, France in 1740.
I am probably a Scandinavian from Burgundarholmr on my dad's side and 3rd generation Irish on my mother's Smiley-side via Quebec, Canada.
"A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of JosΓ© Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Metropolitan, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr., ... An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get first pick after I returned to Texas.
I was invited to Four-star General William Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary on Queen Mary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two knight commanders of the Knights of Malta,
who reported to the Pope in Rome.
I got letters from Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Juan Carlos 1 The King of Spain, ... Bob Hope's wife Delores Hope.
"A global business owner apprised me,
'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.' You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's $350+ million Salvator Mundi
bought by a Saudi Crown Prince in 2017.
"My oeuvre of 1,000 works began
upon the loss of my sister, Helen.
I was 4 y/o when I began.
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