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His Life

Have a Life Chapter for Adam?

July 8, 2021
If you have a Life Chapter for Adam and would like us to share it, please email us at denisekowal@me.com

Tara the Love of his Life

July 7, 2021
Adam's love for Tara was displayed all over his Facebook page, traveling to Hawaii to see what their new found romance would bring. They lived in Hawaii for months and months and finally decided to travel back to the main land and make Maine their home once again to be near family. 

Chalk Festival

July 7, 2021
Adam was the Logistic Chairman of the International Chalk Festival in Florida. As his certificate at the close of 2019 stated: Presented To ADAM HOLBROOK for being an integral part of the 2019 Chalk Festival 'Garden of Wonders' success by taking a positive leadership role as Director of Logistics. Through elephant stampedes, shark infested waters, millions of gallons of paint, oversized boxes, boards weighing tons, mails, trash and tree limbs during the heat, rain, wind, lightning, freezing cold, as well as artist and volunteer personalities, you persevered and gave 100%. Ware are ever so grateful to have you as part of our chalk international family. "Volunteers do not necessarily have the time, they just have the heart."

Adam came upon volunteering for the Chalk Festival in 2017 when Laura Hestler (Volunteer Chairwoman) met him at the Venice Farmer's Market. His words, "Walking through a Farmer's Market in Venice FL and I saw this awesome picture of Chalk Art. I said to the person in the booth, "That's amazing" they said would you like to volunteer? I sat down, they signed me up as a volunteer doing things like parking, checking in guests, etc. I went to one volunteer meeting and was moved in a vague position. About a week goes by and I'm having breakfast at a sidewalk cafe in Venice and I get a call. The lovely lady on the other end of the phone said, "Hi, this is the Chalk Festival office, we're wondering if you could ummmm pick up an elephant today. And of course I said, "yes." Thank you Denise Kowal for the greatest projects I've ever been involved in. You and all the artists and volunteers are the most awesome people."

In January 2020 the 3D Illusion Museum came together with the help of Adam. Artists from all over the world came and went with the 10,000 square foot museum opening in March 2020 as the pandemic took hold of our nation. He returned home to Maine when we had to shutter the doors for a month or so only to return to help dismantle the project in July. After the Museum project he posted in August: 
"Hello Day, Good Morning World, Hope you’re all doing fine. It’s been quite a ride this summer. Projects, challenges, and lots of learning and practicing went on this summer. Truly one of my best summers. Hell its been a great year so far. Ya Covid hit and changed things a bit but most of the fall out was inevitable. I was very fortunate to have been introduced to my favorite human Denise Kowal and the Venice Chalk Festival in 2017 and through that I was asked to be part of the 3D illusion art museum project that kept me busy from January until June. Between building, painting, assisting artists from all over, to communal living with the finest humans one could ask to be in quarantine with, Santiago Hernandez, Kanako Matsumoto, Bridget Lyons, Bill Baranowski. Greatest people to be with in such a surreal time. Gregor Wosik, Eduardo Relero and Remko van Schaik who were able to fly out before international flights started cancelling . It was an amazing time. Since then I’ve been challenged with all sorts of new and old tasks that bring me back to my earliest days of tinkering. In the early years of fixing, altering bicycles, to motor cycles and eventually cars. I’ve swapped out Diesel engines in trucks, taken on another vehicle restore, looking for perhaps sand old motor cycle or maybe a bus or both. We’ll see. I find that the universe pays great attention to me and as long as I’m aware the universe will fill me. Sometime in the last few years after my accident and recovery. I began a lot of seeking out of further knowledge. To find true meaning of things. I will use love as an example. What is love”., I love this”, “oh I love that”, people use the word love in so many ways. But what is love between people? What is love in a relationship? Is there different types, should there be levels of love? Is love real? From that idea I began to start looking inside myself and asking myself what makes me happy. What tiggers me in both a positive and negative ways . From that I began eliminating and/or distancing myself from people, places and things that were deemed negative by me. I sort of did a cleansing of my spirit. I continue to do so and will continue until I either reach perfect zen or expire. I find myself smiling more, regretting less. Requiring less to be happy. I find myself healthier in my body, my mind and my being. I’m evolving, I’m growing and I’m loving myself and life. One of the things that I have not conquered or even settled with is fall. As I awoke this morning I felt the cool crisp air pouring through the window. Instantly I began to feel the spring in side me. The spring is my term for the feeling I’ve gotten every fall for as long as I can remember. Its this hard to control urge, need to go. To get out of Maine, New England, any where cold. I’ve been feeling if coming on. I see it in the way the sun is hanging lower in the sky, the lessening of daylight. Now I fully feel the breath of fall on my flesh and in my bones. It’s inevitable return has come. It’s one of the last demons to conquer or at least understand and command. As I can’t stop it’s return nor winters too. Well I’ve rambled on enough I hope all of you have a wonderful day. May your sword be always sharp and your demons always be easily slayed. Be real, Be you, Be kind, Be aware And https://youtu.be/zg2njQzgMWg"
Adam was scheduled to return to Florida for the 2021 'Spirited' Chalk Festival. He will be there in spirit for certain :) 
Adam's love of the Chalk Festival, the art, volunteers, artists and visitors was widely known. Adam kept in contact with fellow volunteers that worked on his team, artists that he had helped in numerous ways from picking them up at the airport to providing walls and any number of requests, and always gave friendly support and care to anyone who needed it, whether they knew it or not. :)