Crow Hill Art is a family company. It is part devotion to family, devotion to product, and devotion to success that led the four founders to create Crow Hill Art.

Lori Stubbs Durocher, the company's creative parent, has been using her fraktur art to memorialize personal events for more than forty years (see About The Artist). She is one of the founding partners in Crow Hill Art. Lori is responsible for all of the art on our website. Each piece of art you see has been hand painted and typeset by her in her New England studio.

Our company was made possible by new forms of printing where images from original art can be digitally merged with personalized information to recreate the essence of the hand drawn fraktur at a small fraction of its original cost. The quality of the frakturs we offer online is virtually identical to the original art. It is unique in all aspects to its hand drawn cousin. Is it original art? Yes. It is simply not the original art.

The three other founding partners direct the day-to-day operations of that company.

Kate Copeland Durocher is Crow Hill Art's president. Before starting Crow Hill Art, she was a Senior Account Executive at Bridge Worldwide Agency where she was responsible for the strategy and execution for several of Procter & Gamble's online sites including Home Made Simple and Pampers.com, two of P&G's most successful and innovative online marketing programs. She has also worked in marketing for the largest online women's site and as a project manager for the Association for Women in Science. Kate has always been a huge fan of her mother's style. For as long as she can remember she's tagged along at auctions and has bought everything from candlesticks to canopy beds.

Angus Durocher is the company's chief technologist and is responsible for overseeing the online implementation, production process, and printing of the final product. Angus attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he supported his lacrosse habit with writing assignments from the Lewiston Sun Journal. After stops at newspapers in Haines, Alaska and Austin, Texas, he settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been involved in the online sector for over a decade, serving in various creative and technical positions with advertising agencies, CD-ROM game developers, and as production manager at Bigstep.com. He is also the founder and commissioner of the San Francisco Bay Area Kickball League. Most recently, he was a senior consultant to the international development of Blogger.com.

Larry Durocher, Jr. has been an independent marketing and publishing consultant for more than twenty-five years. He is an advisor to various publications, membership organizations, fundraisers, and foundations and oversees many of the financial and business activities of the company.

Most of us at Crow Hill Art are relentless antique collectors and auction crawlers, favoring early American antiques and various forms of Primitive and Folk Art. Lori is the original collector in the Durocher family. She fancies a phrase long-used by our favorite New Hampshire auctioneer (www.wasmithauction.com) in advertising his estate sales. It refers to the "antiques and personality" of the seller. The "personality pieces" of an antique sale are those items that demonstrate the character of the person. When you look at these items, you can actually see the personality of the person whose life is represented by the sale.

Commemorative frakturs are pieces of your personality that you give to others. They are pieces of your personality that will be treasured by your family and friends forever.