His grandmother left 103 sketchbooks. He's repainting every view.

Lucretia Leonard Romey filled 103 sketchbooks over a lifetime of travel, roughly 6,000 watercolor sketches from Norway to Antarctica, almost none of them labeled with where she had been standing. Her grandson Max Romey, a watercolor artist and filmmaker in Anchorage, inherited the archive after she died more than a decade ago. He decided to find the exact spots and paint each view himself. He is up to about 20 locations, from a count of 11 last August. "It's almost kind of scary to think about that at my current pace it is going to take me about 350 years to complete this project," he told Trail Runner. Lu is the reason he paints. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, he found sketchbooks easier than words. She used to mail him drawings of penguins. He posts her pages online and asks viewers to help him figure out what he is looking at. He works in the same Strathmore books she did, the kind sold in craft stores. He has a son now.