How to pronounce “alvah” in English

And Alvah Bradish was Douglass Houghton's brother-in-law.

I do like to point out though that Alvah Bradish was a painter and he's not a bad painter I mean he did, he did the portrait on the cover.

After Douglass Houghton died, Alvah Bradish then painted this life size portrait, full size portrait of him standing in front of what he imagined the pictured rocks looked

Alvah Bradish never saw the picture of rocks.

His dog is named Meem and you wouldn't know from the cover here but you'd know if you look in the inside photograph here that his dog is at his feet in this painting by Alvah

There's one at the Detroit Historical Museum, one at the Portage District Library, and it looks like Alvah Bradish when he couldn't