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Homeward Bounder by Joe Gleason tures paintings on loan from the Kelton Coll ecrion and from rhe artist's family, and includes personal artifacrs from the Gleason fam ily to give visirors more of rhe story behind this multi-ralented man. A sixth-generation Californian, Joe Duncan G leason was a rrue renaissance man. Equally adepr ar landscapes and SEAHISTORY 143, SUMMER2013