I was born in Maryland and spent my first thirty years living there, first in the Appalachian Mountains, then on the Eastern Shore, and later in suburban Washington. After a year in South Carolina, I moved to Georgia in 1977. I soon met another park ranger who worked in Florida. She was a wonderful woman who became my best friend. then my wife, and soon the mother of our three children. I spent over eleven years working in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, and on the moss-draped sea islands nearby before moving to Atlanta.. In 2007, I retired from the National Park Service and a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting resources and themes in the cultural and natural history of the United States. It was a most rewarding experience. Today, I enjoy living in the rolling hills and woods of the Appalachian Piedmont east of Atlanta.
Today's edition of the Rocky Mountain News will be its last. I'm sorry to see it go. My colleagues from the Mountain West brought the paper to my attention several years ago. Many of those years, I read it over the Internet and always made a point of getting the print edition in hand when I was in the Denver area. The Rocky had a good news staff and a refreshing approach to its content, especially the features. Got to be tough to end a run of 150 years.
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