"'I was in my twenties when I met Bert and I learned a lot of Dexter history listening to him; he was a natural story teller. You could say he had a kind of serenity about him, too. His life was marked by personal tragedy but his attitude was: It's God's way and I'm going to live with it. He had a wisdom and strenght I admired.' Frank Spizuoco believes that Bert Call never realized the calue of his own work. The picture that emerges from the tapes, from the remarkable photographs, and from the recollections of the people who knew him is of a man who was part poet, part pholosopher, and not much concerned wbout commerce and the accumulation of wealth. 'He never sent bills to his customers. They'll pay when they can, he'd say. Perhaps that kind of serenity helped him focus on his art.'"
-Frank Spizuoco, as quoted by Richard Sprague for an article in Maine line (Fall 1988)

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