If you travel to Virginia's Eastern Shore you will travel back in time to a rural area where the technology has not yet taken over. The population is still sparse and life is lived at a more leisurely pace. In the midst of all this nature, Jimmy and Mary Merchant have settled down and made their home.

This may seem an unlikely place for a "city kid" who, as a member of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers in the 1950's, had a hit song that landed him in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame and gave the world one of its all time enduring rock classics.

Actually, it is the perfect place for someone who has traveled the world and is now translating those memories into fine art that captures the essence of those experiences.