Have you ever walked past an old deserted building or a discarded piece of machinery and thought, "If this place could talk, I bet it would have some stories to tell"? We not only yearn to hear those stories, we have the feeling that, in them, there may be something important for us . . . for our children. The art of Charles Peterson brings those stories to life, stirring memories and emothions we had forgotten were there.

Of Time and Place is a book of art featuring paintings by one of the most accomplished and most popular artists of our time. It is a book of stories; stories that read differently for each of us based on where we are and where we have been. And, through it all, Of Time and Place is the profile of a most uncommon common man who has touched a generation through his life's work.