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In 1975, a novice reporter set out to try to interview a 10-years-older and infinitely-more-accomplished Canadian artist.
The artist was Sault Ste. Marie’s Ken Danby.
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The reporter was me, on staff at the Cambridge Reporter, one of several papers on my resume that are now defunct.
Danby was giving a Professional Development Day seminar in Kitchener, Ont., to a few dozen high school art teachers, courtesy of a government-funded program.
I had seen him interviewed a few nights earlier by Dave Hodge on Hockey Night in Canada, a program that seldom skated into the world of the arts.
Portrait of an artist by a young man
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