Though Mattis got an expression of interest from the Brooklyn Museum in mounting a Baltermants exhibit, that project was put on ice after Sept. 11 chilled arts budgets.

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He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, where a boy is so lucky because he can play ice hockey outdoors 10 to 11 months a year.

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He was once lost for 11 days after the ice where he was resting broke off from the floe and drifted away.

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