Newton n Robert Heimall spent Saturday evening answering one question over and over: “what was Jim Morrison really like?” Heimall, sipping wine and posing for photographs near album covers he designed for Elecktra Records, patiently answered, “When I knew him, he was talented and smart, he wanted to be a poet.” He went on to explained: “The Doors were becoming the Jim Morrison Show. The band wasn’t happy with that and he wasn’t happy not being able to concentrate on his poetry.” Photos of Morrison looking like a fallen choirboy hung on racks along with the album covers at the Arts & Heritage Council gallery on Moran Street. The iconic Robert Mapplethorpe photo of Patti Smith also attracted notice. “Sometimes you use fancy type when you design a cover,” Heimall said, “but when I saw this picture Robert had taken of her, all I could do was label it.” The album cover was voted one of the best of all time in a Rolling Stone magazine poll. Heimall, who now lives in Vernon, worked with Yoko Ono on album covers when she compiled material after John Lennon’s death. Those and other covers also hung in the exhibit. Other exhibiting artists also greeted visitors at the reception held across the closed Moran Street and in both the gallery and the Arts and Heritage Council office. The exhibit runs through Oct. 20.