And, of course, George Catlin, you think about it, is our most famous export, more so than anthracite coal, 'cause George Catlin, you can still go see today, you can go to the Smithsonian, but think about this.

George Catlin was born where the Dunkin' Donuts is on Public Square back in 1796, went off to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and decided to, well, if you think what a little boy, he's hearing about Lewis and Clark and all these wonderful exhibitions and traveling of the Native Americans on the Great Plains of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and he wants to go see it for himself.

And thank God he did, because George Caitlin did it in such a way and at such a time right before a lot of these Indian tribes get wiped out by either our diseases or the bullets of our guns.

And thank God he did what he did, because he preserved for eternity all the history of these particular tribes on the Great Plains.

- And often he did portraits, didn't he, of some of the leaders of the tribes?

And there's such dignity and respect in his work.

- Correct, so he did chiefs, their wives, religious festivals, hunting buffalo.

He is the person who made the American buffalo an icon of American history.

You think about it.

We put the buffalo on our nickel.

We have it for so many different years.

But the most fascinating thing is, and I can see George Catlin's buffalo bull up on the screen, that that painting was in the Louvre in Paris and in the Oval Office at the White House.

Now, what other person from Wilkes-Barre could do that?

(chuckles) - George Catlin's the one.

- Right.

- And do we know that Annette Evans had an interest in George Catlin and wrote about him and brought some of his paintings back?

- Correct, she did an exhibition of George Catlin here, and she was a big fan of his.

And thank God we have Annette Evans too and all the work that she has done since, well, 1956, when she started the Fine Arts Fiesta.

Just wonderful.

- Wow, Tony, thank you.