The son of a tinker and an acrobat, Duncan Croche Vanderpants was born in St. Germain-en-la-bas in 1935, the youngest of five children. Studying deportment and concavity as a youth, he became an expert marksman before beginning to pursue the arts in any seriousness. As Special Intermittent Correspondent In the Arts for We Love DC, Vanderpants will focus intermittently on corresponding about the arts especially when it happens in DC, which he loves.