![]() After two years of heat and humidity, they decided again to return home to Seattle, and Byron accepted a job as creative director for an advertising agency in Anchorage, Alaska. It was there that their son, Joshua, was born in 1973. It was in Hong Kong that Byron fell in love with the work of Hiroshige and Hokusai and started copying their classic Japanese techniques.Īfter returning to Seattle, Byron got a job as art director of the public television station in Pago Pago, American Samoa. They took their time returning to the U.S., stopping in Bombay, Sri Lanka, Macau and Hong Kong. ![]() They spent a year at Galu Beach in Mombasa and then decided it was time to go home. It was in Uganda that Byron started painting professionally and selling pictures for $40 each, which went a long way in 1967. government program teaching English to African students in Kampala, Uganda which Byron called a “golden time.” They loved it there and stayed for four years. He then earned a master’s degree in education from Stanford University and taught for four years in Sunnyvale, Calif.īyron married Lynn Sternberg in 1960 and they were accepted to a U.S. 18, 1937 and was raised in Herman, Calif, a suburb of Los Angeles.īyron graduated from Los Angeles Pacific High School and then obtained a history degree from Seattle Pacific College in 1959. ![]() Byron Birdsall was born in Buckeye, Ariz on Dec.
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