A Vermont cartoonist who forged a copy of an original Norman Rockwell painting so he could keep the original from his wife's divorce lawyer ended up leaving his adult children a multi-million-dollar payoff years after his death.
Don Trachte, who died in 2005 at age 89, displayed the forgery in his home but kept the original 1954 painting Breaking Home Ties behind a hidden sliding door behind a bookcase in his studio.
"And although it be not always so plentifull, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plentie."
