Napkins provide backdrop for artistic expression

Berne Tri-Weekly:

South Adams' Stephen Hartman will never forget a career-seeding moment that occurred at McDonald's when he was a young child.

"Every year we go to McDonald's on the first day of school," said Hartman. "A person in there was drawing a certain landscape on a napkin. I was intrigued by it so he gave it to me.

"Two years later another napkin with a drawing on it was lying there. I started drawing all of the time," continued Hartman. "I drew different characters and different things. My friends and I would play 'Who Knows What. At recess; I would draw the characters."