The insights provided by Rick Norsigian, a house painter working for the school system in Fresno, California, whose hobby was garage sales, provided several insights for me.   

Around 2002 Rick had contacted me on the advice of Leroy Radanovich, then the photographer who had been given the task of digitizing  tens of thousands of negative, which it appears were the property of Grandfather, Arthur C. Pillsbury, so the National Park Service could have the use of these.  Stephen Mather had persuaded Ansel Adams, then Grandfather's janitor this could provide a wonderful change in his life's prospects, as it certainly did.  

Leroy had told Rick it was very possible the 64 negatives he had purchased at the garage sale in Fresno were by Pilsbury. and gave him my number.  Rick, always looking for a bargain, had negotiated the price down from $75 to $45 from the sellers. So, since Rick asked, I went by his home in Fresno and looked at the photos he had purchased for $45 at a garage sale.  

When the Reality iTV show series begins, now placed in our 20th Century Stories, Series, you can learn much more about the deal Mather cut with Ansel, whose name begins with an 'A" and has the same number of letters as does 'Arson.  I wonder if that gave Mather the idea.  

It was some years later that the emails from Attorney Ryan Sullivan appeared in my email box.   

I was astonished to hear Norsigian was claiming the negatives were by Ansel Adams.   Later, Rick would explain to me he wanted to leave some assets for his grandchildren and he had been persuaded he could make this stick.  Given what he had told me about his meeting with the Adams family this seemed to me to be very wishful thinking.   I had tried to persuade him of how unwise his actions were, and later.  But he was determined to become rich. Oh well, I tried.