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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Retired
Location	Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Introduction	I am a long time Alaskan, first coming to the State in 1967 when I was 27 years old. My purpose then was to see Alaska and have an adventure, but I find myself still here these many years later. Anchorage hired me to teach science classes in 1969. I taught eighteen years, retiring in 1987. During those years June, July, and August were mine. I counted salmon on the Alaskan Peninsula for the Fish and Game, commercially fished halibut for a couple summers, and explored Alaska by car and snowmobile. My wife, Mary, and I owned and ran an out-of-print bookstore business specializing in Alaskana for 10 years. We built a cabin near Seldovia across Kachemak Bay from Homer, and spent part of each summer there for twenty-five years (accessible by water or a hike through the woods). We have driven nearly every road in the State and have crossed the Alaska-Canadian Highway (ALCAN) a dozen times.
Interests	Memoirs, Genealogy, Writing, Reading, Travel
Favorite music	Dark Side of Moon by Pink Floyd, Willy Nelson
Favorite books	The Frontiersman by Alan Eckert, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, The Book - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, by Alan Watts, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, A New American History by William E. Woodword