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==Personal life== Hart was an active member of his local community β the area of [[Greater Binghamton]] in [[Broome County, New York]], which shares a common abbreviation of "B.C." Hart donated B.C.-based drawings and logos free of charge to many entities and organizations found in the Broome County area, including logos for: * [[B.C. Transit]] β Caveman on Wheel * [http://www.gobroomecounty.com/parks Broome County Parks] β Dinosaur * [http://www.gobroomecounty.com/senior/mow Broome County Meals on Wheels] β Caveman on Wheel with Food * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080725073001/http://unitedwaybroome.org/Pages/Member%20Agencies/American_Red_Cross.htm Southern Tier Red Cross] β Caveman building Red Cross with Bricks * [http://bccpd.org/ Broome County Celtic Pipes and Drums] β Caveman wearing Kilt and playing Bagpipes * [http://bcceltickazooband.blogspot.com/2013/01/welcome.html Broome County Celtic Kazoos] β Irish Caveman with Kazoo * [[B.C. Open]] PGA Tour Event (1971β2006) β Caveman golfing * [[Broome Dusters]] [[NAHL]] Hockey Club β Caveman with hockey stick * [[B.C. Icemen]] [[United Hockey League|UHL]] Hockey Club β Brute Cavemen playing hockey * [http://www.stic-cil.org/ Southern Tier Independence Center] β Caveman in stone wheelchair stuck in cave doorway, "Wiley" character navigating a landscape full of holes Hart's involvement with the B.C. Open dated back to the early 1970s, and characters from ''B.C.'' were used extensively in advertising and marketing materials for the event, including the winner's trophy, which was a bronzed version of a hapless ''B.C.'' Caveman golfing, a light-hearted trophy when compared to many others, leading it to have earned the designation of being "voted by the players on Tour as the best trophy on Tour; the one that they would love to have."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070409/NEWS01/704090324/1001/ARCHIVE |title=B.C. Loses Hart |first=George |last=Basler |publisher=[[Press & Sun-Bulletin]] |date=April 9, 2007 |access-date=2007-04-09}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Additionally, Hart contributed original panels of ''B.C.'' strips for charity auctions with the [[Binghamton, New York]]-based PBS affiliate, [[WSKG-TV]]. He also provided album cover art for the 1999 album ''Still Fresh'' by the world-famous jazz vocal group [[The Four Freshmen]], and his strips for B.C. were the inspiration for the mascot of [[University of California at Irvine|UC Irvine]], the anteater.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.uci.edu/peter/ |title=Peter's Page |publisher=[[University of California, Irvine]] |access-date=2009-08-05 |archive-date=2009-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805064408/http://www.uci.edu/peter/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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