He dropped his fledgling career as a cabinetmaker years ago, a symptom of moving to New York and leaving his shop behind, his dexterity now devoted to chainsawing on weekends at the gothic-revival cottage near Newburgh that he shares with his wife Fenella, a physician.
Surrounded by the university's GothicRevival buildings on one side and the city's traditional main street on the other, the trapezoidal museum evokes a shimmering spaceship from a distant world.