Ancient
Vacations.
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Colorado
on a good old fashioned drive till your butt
hurts summer vacation. We started off in the company and caravan of
Joanne Stone and Sharon Seligman thru Lincoln and Santa Fe, New Mexico
but took off for Chama, Telluride, and Mesa Verde on our own.
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Illinois
with my son, Sean, we visited Alice, Mark Twain, Iowa City, Jean Marie,
and Mike and Nicolas on their Beecher cattle farm.
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Big
Bend with my family, the Mc Gahagin's, and the Marty Butler.
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San
Francisco with the Bonicks, Iris, Fritz, Judi, Sharon, and Virginia.
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Santa Fe with Sam, Roger, Lia, Susanne, and Mario.
Employment
- Owner/photographer, The Blackthorn Studio, Austin, Texas, 1982 to present
- Projectionist,
Dobie Twin Screens, Austin, Texas 1984-85
- Projectionist, Village Cinema Four, Austin, Texas, 1983
- Cashier, Circle K Ice House, Austin, Texas, 1982 (really broke)
- Audio-Visual technician, LBJ
Library, Austin, Texas 1975-1982
- Photographer, PhotoTec Party Photos, Austin, Texas 1975-77
- Photo Lab technician, Hoover Presidential Library, W. Branch, IA, 1975
- Hand, Sugar Bottom Horse Farm, Tiffany, Iowa, winter 1975
- Photo Editor, Dowagiac Daily News, Dowagiac,
Mich., summer 1974
- Photo Lab-night supervisor,
U of I Journalism, Iowa City, IA 1974-75
- Photographer, The Daily Iowan, Iowa
City, IA, 1974-75
- Welder, Thrall Railroad Car Mfg., Chicago Hgts., IL summer 1973
- Loader/Driver, Central
Steel & Wire, Chicago, IL summer 1972
- Dry Boy, Glenwood Texaco Car Wash, Glenwood, IL, weekends, 1969-71
- Bus Boy, Cherry Creek Country Club,
Flossmoor,IL, summers & weekends 1967-69
- Caddy, Idlewild Country Club, Flossmoor, IL 1966
- Newspaper Boy, "So. Chicago Advertiser" & "The Chicago American" 1964-65
Education
(in a formal sense)
- University of Texas,
Graduate American Studies Program 1979
- University
of Iowa, BA, Journalism & English (creative writing) 1975
- Benedictine College,
Atchison, Kansas 1971 (flunked out)
- Marian Catholic Prep,
ooh ahh, who's the best,, 1968-1971, Chicago Heights, IL
- St. Joseph's Grammar School,
Homewood, IL 1966 & 1967
- Our Lady of Peace Grammar School, 1959-1966, Chicago,
IL
- Horace Mann Elementary, Kindergarten, 1958, Chicago, IL