Chuck Patch

Jan was an important part of my life in his pre-Albany days in Madison, Wisconsin. He was a kind soft-spoken prankster who hosted visiting artists at his former-corner-grocerystore house. He had the most gigantic and far-flung correspondence of anyone I had ever met (and have met since.) Many years later I reconnected with him and Lilian when my son went to Ithaca College. A few days after I visited for the first and last time in Albany, I picked up Lydia at the airport in New Orleans to drop her off at Loyola 5 days before Katrina hit. Hurricanes seem to have been a significant part of his life in his later years. Here are some pictures of Jan with his family and at Richard Prince's secret house near Albany.