“Augustus John” - Sir William Orpen. ... One of the first paintings seen in Ripley is this 1900 portrait by Sir William Orpen, which Ripley observes in the window of antiques store in New York.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the ...

That is, they didn’t exist until John Ripley Forbes came to Norwell back in 1962. “He was like the Johnny Appleseed of science centers,” said John Galluzzo, local historian.