He sees how they work or finds a better way to do it.” As his son Michael says, “He just gets interested in things. Rim is an engineer and a physicist, well known for his ability to solve problems. They have been married for nearly sixty years, traveled the world, had successful careers, and are the parents of three sons and a daughter. Rim Kaminskas was born in Lithuania, as was his talented and dynamic wife Lili, but the two met in the United States, where both their families had emigrated. More than a timepiece, it is a work of art, a focal point in the room that is a gathering place for our community, and a symbol of the many unheralded expressions of creativity, care, and diligence that are happening around us as the hours of each day pass. One Monday morning in April, Rim Kaminskas quietly brought a gift to the Hollister House: a grandfather clock that he lovingly built from the wood of a fallen Ranch oak. Afterwards, I shall post in the reminiscences of one of his friends and kindred spirits, a man named Ken Vadnais. I’ll start with a piece I wrote several years ago about a beautiful grandfather clock he made from the wood of a fallen oak tree and presented as a gift to the Ranch. But there was so much more, and I’ll let the stories about him speak for themselves. He was a brilliant, creative, and generous soul, perhaps best known for a homebuilt single-engine, single-seat biplane called the Jungster, first flown in 1962. I recently heard about the passing of a remarkable man, Rim Kaminskas.
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