Adolph's Desk

Adolph is sitting at the desk he made by hand. He shared with me that he used all hand tools to cut, router, drill and screw it together. I am sure he said he made it when he was a teen. I can only imagine how much time it must have taken since it has many compartments. In addition to the actual desk, I still have the old desk lamp which also looks a lot like the one he had a work.
[Looks like the calendar is from November or December of 1946. It has a little Christmas decoration and is leaning up against a candle.]

He loved to read and was very much self taught on many subjects. He told me many times that all one had to do to learn something new was to read up on the subject. I can make out a ski book and a manual for his speed graphic camera. Two of his many passions. Knowing how he was I can imagine he spent hours engrossed in one of his passions and reading all he could on the subject. When I cleaned his old books out of his house I found everything from learning German (he said a lot of chemistry was in German so he needed to know some of that) to Aeronautical books (something he never did do). Because he was a diabetic since age 15 he also had numerous medical and health books. He always would become self taught on a health issue rather than simply trust the doctors. I am sure many a doctor was annoyed by him telling them what he thought they should be doing.]