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New Canaan Artist Ed Eberman’s Work Showing Now at New Canaan Library

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. The late Edwin Eberman—a man known to New Canaanites as a local artist whose influence can be felt throughout our town—was born in 1905 in the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. There, Mr. Eberman worked a number of odd jobs—from construction project cost accountant to type setter of the local newspaper, before graduating from Roxboro High School where he was the editor and illustrator of the yearbook. Through all those years, Mr. Eberman nurtured and developed what became an abiding, lifelong passion for art. In fact, his daughter, New Canaan resident Alice Jennings, recalled on a recent afternoon, he was known to say that he could not remember a time when he was not “always drawing.”

“Every Halloween my parents would not give out candy but my Dad would paint everybody in their costumes,” Ms. Jennings recalled.