Robin Costa Booth 18 April 1999 Dear Robin Another book signing will be at the Las Vegas Art Museum May 8th and 9th(Saturday and Sunday)including a symposium and a mini show of the End is Near show in Baltimore. I will be at the Sante Fe or the World trade Center Hotel. I invite you to come. Also there will be other signings including a West Coast 3 in one trip June 16th at Powell's Book's in Portland 7pm,17th at Guardrail Gallery first Street in Seattle and 18th at Elliott Bay Books on 1st St. Seattle from 2-5 on that Saturday afternoon. Please come. The Las Vegas Art museum is on West Sahara Ave 9600 phone 702-360-8000. and their fax is 360-8080. The building is most modern and worth seeing. Dr. James Mann,Jr is the curator. I am shipping 5new paintings to them for the show,one entitled"The End is Near" The World trade Center has many things for sale from hotels torn down in Vegas recently that you may find interesting,room rates are $28.00 Sunday through Thrusday and 38.00 Friday and Saturday. The Las Vegas Art Museum is planning to publish my work from last Summers show in a book including a fold out cover showing the 300 foot painting of Revelation. This will be out later this year. My painting of Revelation will show this Fall in St.Louis at the City Museum,701 15th Street and maybe in Paris for the New Years going into the year 2000. I am very pleased. Dr. Carol Crown at the University of Memphis has written extensively about it. She saw this painting in Atlanta and came to Baltimore to see it. The South Carolina State Museum has now acquired 6 of my paint-ings of Revelation scenes on the heavier canvas and stretchers in size 3x4 feet. These look good without frames with black borders. These paintings will be in their permanent collection and they will feature my work in this years end of this century show and catalog of 100 years and 100 artist of the 20th century. I hope you will come to this event on May 8th and 9th. I found the End is Near book in stock in Borders Books in Honolulu and ask them about a book signing. They were interested with 4 stores in the islands and 1 in Hong Kong also in Australia. I told Steve and suggested he have a major book signing and promotion at AVAM. Enclosed is a picture of my peach painting. Also my new corrected journal certain pages. I hope to complete it soon. What do you think about the possibility of publishing it? Sincerely William Thomas Thompson 106 Dupont Drive Greenville,South Carolina 29607 864-233-9319, fax 864-242-9935 Dear Phillip May 3,1999 The steel stairway is a different matter needing all one design. Maybe I should choose it when I come. There are 23 pieces 24 inch tall and from 12 to 200 inches long. The up sides are to be straight ends and it would be better if the design shift to straight also on the uprights that follow the steel steps up. The landings are straight horozonal and the staircase goes 3 floors high. I am trying to get the exact rise for each but it is hard to do. I will herein this letter give a repeat measurements of the straircase. The total stairway guardrail 2 foot high is 110 feet long. I will give you a better description of the shapes although the ratio of rise is the same on all uprights.(8 pieces) The corrected stairway guardrail lightweight 24inch sizes are- 2 uprights 200 inches each,200 inches up steps and 100 inches of rise. 5 straight 36 inches (horizonal) 24 inches tall 2 upright 60 inches each x 24 inches tall 1 straight 60 inches x 24 inches tall 4 straight 15 inches each x 24 inches tall 1 straight 12 inches x 24 inches tall 2 upright 84 inches each x 24 inches tall 1 upright 96 inches x 24 inches tall 2 straight 30 inches each x 24 inches tall 1 upright 24 inches x 24 inches tall 1 straight 102 inches x 24 inches tall 1 straight 48 inches x 24 inches tall __________________________________ total 23 pieces of 24 inches To review the main items again,55 4x10foot fence w/spears and 17 of these to be pitched. plus 8 poles 8feet tall. Stairrails are 12 total with number 2 turning 90 degrees at top. 2 32 feetx36inch fence. 2 piece gate 36inch with rolling top. all with stears. Gates should start at 36inch and go upward. 5 pieces deck fence 36inch tall,3 pc up and down fence backdeck, 3 pieces short for 3rd floor deck 18inch. All these with spears. total 73pcs fence with spears,12pc handrails all w/mount plates, 23pcs lightwt for steelstair. total of 108pieces steel plus 8post Daily Journal Continued May 03,1999, By-William Thomas Thompson The weekend was full of the Jesse Jackson deal of freeing 3 sold-iers from the Belgrade was,Jackson is a native of Greenville made good for himself followed by Angela Mitchell of NBC. The fighting force of America is of Spanish decent like the dirtyworking force of today. These gugs look alot like the people the border guards drag off to prison from Brownsville to San Diego as illegals. It may be that they put them all in the army to serve time. Soldiers today all wear camouflage that green and brown cotton khaki unif-orms. It is hard to recogonize American soldiers today wearing a patch of the United Nations and serving with NATO. The confusion of Y2K could not be any worse than we have now trying to figure out who we are and who to shoot. One soldier is said to have may-be talked to his captors. Why not. Whos loyalty are we protect-ing anymore. Religion is now the sameway, The one world universal church takes in everybody and everything as good,even the heathen idol worshippers. To them there is no devil. To us now thereis no enemy. We just shoot for the fun of it. We give away our soverei-gnity. We share our secrets and we drug our people. This is that age of treason when our enemy is within and not without. It will get worse before it gets better. Our Lord is coming back to this earth soon. Let us put our personalhouse in order and speaktruth. The 80tornadoes that hit Oklahoma today including one 1 mile wide are the worst in history. Reports of thousands of houses and oth-er buildings leveled. This coinsided with the television movie I saw part of today on Noah's Ark when a giant tornado took the en- emies out. This is like the end and is for many. With 300mile per hour winds,who could survive? Major destruction continues in this our great land as if God was furious with us. A path of destruct-ion is cut across these ununited states from the Califoria earth-quakes to the Columbine high school and other shootings to all of the Mississippi flooding of the NorthWest. The droughts in all of this land at times also tell us of judgement like last year in a-part of Texas. "The desert will flourish in the last days,it will blossom like a rose". Man has now inhabited the desert of our out West and built houses where jack rabbits and tumble weed only was before the late model gold rush. We grow roses now on those great plains in tornado ally at a heavy price,craft has prospered here. The duck boat sinking on LakeHamilton in Hot Springs,Arkanas is a very sad thing. I like HotSprings with its natural mineral water. Clear clean hot water flows out of that mountain and has in it I am sure a full count of vital minerals that is necessary to main-tain our bodies healthy. Hot Springs is one of the places in the world I would like to lie but crime is on the increase there like everywhere in these last days,the water reminds me of the tree of life in Revelation 22 and in Genesis of creation where the fount-ain flows freely our of the Throne of God forever. The nature pe-ople are right but its God Almighty that creates life and recrea-tes our bodies ever 7 years if we eat and live right giving natu-re the right building blocks to return us near the same as origi-nally we were built. Let us give glory and praise to our maker.