Daniel Allen:  

Life Sandy lives in Westerly, Rhode Island, where he's been for over twenty years, having moved from NYC to work at the Mystic Aquarium (with David Merritt and Curt Horton) in '81. Greenwich Village was home for seven years, while he played and recorded with the band Free Beer (with Michael Packer). The band toured a lot and did pretty much what you'd expect - see any episode of "Behind the Music" - in the seventies. When not on the road, "Sandman" would often work with other musicians as a sideman, singing harmony, playing guitar/bass. He fell in love with a woman who drove a horse-drawn carriage, and convinced her to help him get a job doing the same. From '77 until he left NYC, he drove hay wagons, all manner of carriage, and even a stage coach. There were other jobs at the stable - he was the "cat-wrangler" on a Paul Mazursky movie, a rather inglorious footnote to his theatrical resume (you all thought he'd be a star! Looks like "Finian's Rainbow" was the high point of his acting career). In any case, on the basis of his work with animals, and no small amount of nepotism,...Expand for more