Franco is also featured in Oliver Sacks’ book, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Dr. Sacks lectured about Franco and his memory for a program honoring Franco at the Medici Palace in Florence, Italy. Exhibitions of the memory paintings have also been shown in Lucca and Pescia, Italy, and a

traveling exhibit is visiting several cities in the United States and Canada. He continues to paint Pontito and the surrounding area as well as local California scenes, and does specialized woodworking projects. Franco lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.