South Dakota Veterans Home brings art to its residents
Hector Curriel didn’t really know if he’d connected at all with the residents of the Michael J. Fitzmaurice South Dakota Veterans Home that he was sketching until he showed him the sheet of drawing paper. When the elderly man saw the caricature of himself, completed with checked shirt and ball cap, a change came over his face. “He barely was speaking,” recalled Curriel. “As soon as I finished and showed his caricature, though, I could see it in his eyes. That moment was very special. That made my day.”
