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Gender	Male
Industry	Construction
Occupation	landscape gardener (retired)
Location	Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Introduction	Factories in the countryside run on part-time jobs is the idea to which I have devoted most of my life. My first book on the subject, A Part-time Job in the Country, failed to find a publisher. My second, The Soft Path I published myself. You can find it on the web.
Interests	Ancient and Modern History, Comparative Religion, Economics.
Favorite movies	Currently 1930's Hollywood comedies on Turner Classic Movies (thank you Ted Turner!)
Favorite music	Mozart's Piano Quartets, the soundtrack to Ken Burn's PBS television series, "The Civil War" along with choice examples of just about every genre of 19th and 20th century American popular music.
Favorite books	War and Peace, Sandburg's 6 volume biography of Lincoln. I like almost any fiction written by Ellen Gilchrist or John Updike. Thomas Eliot is my favorite poet after Shakespeare and I am a big fan of the King James translation of the Bible. Pope's Essay on Man is a favorite. I'm always on the lookout for new fiction to read and, lately, some of the new poetry coming out in little magazines like The Paris Review. When it comes to literature I am a snob.