The name Tom Medlicott is well-known in Redlands; it is on many stained-glass windows in public buildings, churches and private residences throughout the area. He has been creating and repairing stained-glass windows for more than 50 years, but the route from Colorado to Redlands was not direct.
On Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Redlands Conservancy’s Second Tuesday Speaker Series at Historic Asistencia, Medlicott will recount his own journey from being a city planner to being an incredible artist. From Pueblo, Colorado (where he went to play baseball on a scholarship) to San Francisco in the late 60s — the Flower Power era — back to Pueblo, then Oregon, and eventually to Running Springs and finally, Redlands.
While on his second stint in Pueblo, he saw an itinerate stained-glass repair man working; he stopped, watched, and chewed the fat with him while he watched. After helping out the man for a while, he decided, “This is what I want to do. So, I kinda taught myself.”…