The Love for Europe Richard Scarry had

In 1950, 5 years following the conclusion of World War 2, a 31-year-old Richard Scarry from Boston and his wife Patricia "Patsy" sailed to Europe for the summer. Their summer tour of Europe included spending time in Villefranche-Sur-Mer and St Jean Cap Ferrat on the French Rivera, the French capital of Paris as well as Italy but it was in St Anton am Arlberg in Tirol, Austria was where he came across a Tyrolean hat in which he purchased and wore for many years, particularly on visits to his publishers in New York. Little did Patsy know that the hat would appear in her husband's books. In fact little did she know that Richard now had a thing for Europe. In 1963, the Scarrys (now with a son Richard Jr, also known as Huck) sailed the SS France to Europe and they travelled across the continent with a Eurailpass. The trips began to influence Richard Scarry's writings like European architecture and characters wearing traditional European clothing. Even the tyrolean hat Richard bought on his 1950 Europe trip was on the head of a worm who was later called Lowly. The Scarrys lived in a rented house in Ouchy, Lausanne in Switzerland on the shore of Lake Geneva in 1968 to be closer to the Swiss ski slopes but eventually in 1972, Richard Scarry bought a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland where he would remain living in for the rest of his life, dying in 1994 with regular travels to Morocco and Kenya as well as summers in France's St Jean Cap Ferrat. Richard's son Huck now carries on the stories his dad wrote to this day.