In ''what seems like another life'', I was a US Marine, which allowed me to obtain a BA degree in 1975 from Kent State University with a double major in Anthropology and Political Philosophy. Since then I have been a farmhand, folk musician, luthier, insurance agent, square dance fiddler, fur trade era rendezvous musician and aficionado of the French and Indian War. Two of my articles on Christopher Gist have been published in Muzzleloader Magazine. Currently my significant other and I make jewelry with a strong Southwestern look (Leslie lived in Taos, NM for many years) and sell it at national level arts and craft shows across the country. In some of these shows, garbed in period clothing, we demonstrate and tell about the history of our craft. We live in the hills of east central Ohio. My interest in Old Time music as a fiddler and banjoist leads me to attend music festivals and collect Appalachian fiddle tunes.  With the release of a second CD, this one about frontier fiddling, I am  playing more "in character" as an eastern "frontiersman/fur trader" who happens to play fiddle. 

     Sadly, both Scioty and Neekanuh have passed on. But after only eight dog-free months these two Copper Goldens came up for adoption from Golden Treasures Rescue in Clinton, OH. It was in March 2012 that we brought Elijah (L) and Abraham (R) home. They were ages nine and seven then, a father/son team whose owners had died. We kept their given names and are semi-retiring together in the Ohio countryside.