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| Background: |
Ab was given the nickname Abstract- later shortened to Ab- by
friends in school. When Ab was seven years old, he and his mother moved to Atlanta
after the death of his father. His father's funeral was instrumental in his career
as an artist. Ab remembers sitting at his father's funeral looking at the flag
on the coffin. An older half-sister, whom Ab did not know, was given the flag.
Ab began collecting cloth flags after the tremendous disappointment of not being
given the flag from his father's coffin. Ab started out as a carpenter and builder.
One day he looked at the walls of his house and decided to make something to hang
above the mantel of the fireplace. He was in his front yard finishing a giant
flag made from odds and ends from left over wood and moldings. A man drove by
and asked if he could buy the flag for a party he was having for the fourth of
July.Ab said no then the man pulled out cash and offered $75 for the flag.Ab sold
it on the spot. The man came back after the party and asked Ab to make three more
because his friends wanted to buy them.and so the story goes.Ab the Flag man was
dubbed, he has made flags ever since. |
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