Framing Norman A. Browne
Our family first met the Brownes (Norm and Pam) in 1969 at the futuristically named Telstar Apartments in Flagstaff Arizona. My family had just moved there from Dallas Texas and I was just out of first grade. Ourselves and the Brownes were at these apartment for the same reason. There was a housing shortage at the time in Flagstaff and both families had moved to Flagstaff but could not buy a house right away. Norm came to teach Art at Northern Arizona University and my dad came to run the marketing department at Southern Union Gas. This meeting though random was fortuitous and my father would retain a long and active friendship with Norm and Pam. Norm was a talented artist and avid outdoorsman. My father and mother both enjoyed the outdoors as well. Being only 7 at the time we met I don’t have many solid recollections. This was the basis of my father’s friendship and my family’s as well. Norman was a fly fisherman and he taught my father and showed him his favourite place Kinder C...