Excerpts from a St. Helena Star article from 2004. This is Tony.
Tony may not be able to control his hand or his checkbook, but it seems he has a good wife who is trying to keep that pesky addiction under control.
But then, the problem becomes clear: land is just flying at them!
Then the article gets into how they’ve never been to France (too busy buying land!) and a few parcels that they don’t own around what they do own, and how this little piece of the pie irks him and he concludes:
Maybe someone will die and the phone will ring. Maybe someone will throw the land at him so he can finally close that darn checkbook and get down to the business of living.
Jack Silbert, curator