What Draws Alan Tuttle’s Eye is Always Revealing
Published in Delaware Beach Magazine, May 2025
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Alan B. Tuttle has been creating things since he was a child. On his grandmother’s property in Hermon, N.Y. — far upstate, near the Canadian border — he helped his mother and brothers transform a chicken coop into a two-bedroom residence, so they had a place to live.
“We hauled in a potbelly stove,” recalls the Lewes area resident, “and carried water from my grandmother’s house to our own, but we look back at those times with fond memories because we had each other.”
A pivotal development occurred in 1970. As a secondgrader, he attended elementary school in nearby Brasie Corners, where he met “Mr. Watkins,” a new principal, and “Mr. Hughes,” the art teacher.
“Both of these gentlemen were quietly watching the artwork I was doing,” he says. “One day I brought in an Easter basket made from construction paper, and they asked me to teach third- and fourth-graders how to make their own.”
Not long after, Principal Watkins met Alan at the close of the day and handed him a brown paper bag marked “Do not open until you get home!”
It was full of art supplies. READ FULL ARTICLE…
