The view from Arthur’s home in Berkeley, a Cape Cod that reminded him of his summers in East Hampton, NY.
Cute kid! growing up in Manhattan, playing sports outdoors
Arthur and Rosemary out for a stroll in Davis, CA
Enjoying being young, in Central Park
Relaxing on the beach in East Hampton, reveling in another victory in the Artists – Writers Softball Game, after pitching a shut-out
Helping strategize and build support for civil and economic rights
Budding baseball player – New York City
Strategizing at Democratic convention
Amazing they got Arthur to stand still long enough to be photographed in that suit
Receiving recognition from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Promoting some of his favorite books at a local bookstore in Berkeley
Looking very dapper
What an adorable baby, with those huge brown eyes!
A staunch advocate for Americorps and universal national public service
Hanging out with dear friend Judy MacLean in his backyard in Davis, CA
Rounding the bases at the annual Writers – Artists charity softball game in East Hampton
He was so incredibly handsome!!
“The Fontaines” cutting up on stage – perhaps while serving in the Army in France
Being awarded a golden baseball to commemorate his pitching on behalf of the Artists
Probably the longest Arthur wore his hair — at a Democratic political convention
With Rosemary at their home in Davis, CA (with real birds of paradise growing in the back yard)
Private Arthur Blaustein, U.S. Army
With President Jimmy Carter and members of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, including economic rights activist Ruby Duncan (4th from the right)
Hanging out with his dear friend Jimmy Lipton — author, host of Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo, and fellow softball player
President Jimmy Carter congratulating Arthur on his appointment as Chair of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity
With dear friends Deborah Robison and Dennis Cohen in his home in Davis, CA
What an adorable baby!
Historic headline Arthur’s mother sent him, Arthur saved, and Rosemary had framed
With Arthur’s mother, a former model, on their front stoop in New York
With Arthur’s cousins Melissa and Jim Bloom in his home in Davis, CA
Encouraging “like a niece” Elena (Cohen) Holsman before her Bat Mitzvah
Breakfast at home in Davis, CA
Pitching for the writers in the Writers-Artists charity softball game in East Hampton
Left to right, front row: Arthur with cousins Elizabeth and Walter Gundy and his mother Esther Blaustein; back row: uncles and aunts Joe and Sylvia Landy; Morey and Evelyn Gundy; and Arthur’s father Morris Blaustein, in New York
Arthur with his parents Morris and Esther
Arthur with his dear friend Stan Shuman in East Hampton
Arthur loved the hawthorn tree that bloomed profusely every spring in his front yard in Berkeley — a harbinger of longer days of sunshine and the start of baseball season