Dick, thank you. I first met James at the first THR Colorado Get Together in 2004. We became good friends over the years, even though there were sometimes a year or more between visits.
James was a loner, by choice. He was also a very talented photographer, artist, and writer. He was a bullseye shooter who prized fine firearms, particularly Colt Pythons. Every one of his guns was a shooter, no safe queens. I personally know of one unfired snub Python from the 70s that he bought, and then immediately sent it off for Magnaporting and trigger work. He didn't believe I owning a handgun that wasn't set up his own particular way for shooting.
If you are back in contact with his family let them know he was a highly regarded member here by most of us; especially those of us that were here from the beginning and were familiar with each other from other boards.
James' only family were his sister Susan, a younger brother John, and an elderly aunt. Susan is the one I've been in contact with. I've made her aware of the many online friends that he had.
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jstillwater.com expired on 01/26/2014 and is pending renewal or deletion.
That's too bad. His website was a treasure of artwork and prose (In fact, the picture on the linear reflections site is his own, entitled "Self Portrait"). If someone has a way of retrieving a archived copy of it, I would appreciate it. I do own several of his prints, and I have a digital copy of the "Great American Novel" he finished a couple of years ago, though I haven't read much of it yet. (It's actually a LARGE collection of his prose, not a novel at all.)
