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Article: WHATEVER HAPPENED: SCIENCE-FICTION ARTIST KELLY FREAS?(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2001
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Byline: MARY ADAMS-LACKEY THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT\
In March 1987, when legendary science fiction artist and illustrator Frank Kelly Freas decided to move to California from his home on Blackwater Road in Virginia Beach, dozens of devoted fans converged for a send-off. Freas had shared the house for 25 years with his wife, Polly, who died of cancer in January 1987.
Fans spent four months cataloguing and packing the belongings of the ten-time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award, the World Science Fiction Society's equivalent of the Oscar.
One man even renovated a school bus and made two cross-country trips transporting Freas' possessions, which upon arrival in Los ...