Hello from Louisville Kentucky. I'm the artist who didn't give my painting to Stanley Bard. I see you have included this tidbit in your blog. I am proud to be a part of it. We talked before your reading at Ear X- Tacy last Thursday. I am really enjoying your excellent book 'Legends of the 
Chelsea Hotel", it brings back many memories. I lived in room 607 for a year, beginning in July of 1988, than returned to the Chelsea about 6 months later to live with a girl I had fallen for, she living on the 8th floor, in a large room with a kitchen and private bath, towards the back of the building. I read in your book where one of the illustrious Chelsea residents, was it Madonna, or Joplin, stayed in 822, and I wondered if that was the room where I stayed with my girlfriend, whose name was Audrey. Stanley liked me for my Midwestern attitudes, for my habit of paying the rent on time, for renovating my room at no cost, but he probably did not think the same of me after Audrey and I left the Chelsea for a Brooklyn apartment in Red Hook about 6 months after I moved in with Audrey, in the middle of the night (her idea). No telling if she ever paid her rent, like so many others mentioned in the book. But, she was born and raised in NYC, and she seemed to know something I didn't, at least about the Chelsea Hotel. If I remember, Stanley was rather fond of Audrey, in a fatherly way. I wonder if he remembers me. Again, it was a pleasure meeting you and Susan. sincerely, Bob Higgins (Maybe Stanley Bard will write in and let us know if he remembers Bob.)
After the Flood, 1988, by Bob Higgins
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