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The History Guide -- Main
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Part One: College
I was born July 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. I attended Racebrook Elementary School in Orange (1960-1966) and then Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven (1966-1972), which is now known as The Hopkins School. My earliest academic interests were in the physical sciences and environmental studies. I also became something of a photographer. By my senior year I had decided to study geology in college. I had this vision of rambling across the desert in a Jeep CJ-5 in search of, I don't know . . . rocks! Nice vision! It didn't last very long.
In a Form II (8th grade) western civilization class, I wrote a book review of Lost Worlds, by Anne Terry White. It was a horrible paper! I know because I've still got it. I received a grade of 70 on it! On the first page I wrote that "I have always been interested in finding odd things in the most peculiar places." My history instructor, Mr. Karl Crawford, wrote in the margin, "Curiosity is the essence of a good historian, either fledgling or professional. Don't lose it."
I spent a brief stint at the University of Miami (one semester, in fact!). I intended to major in geology but ended up doing things like skipping class, hitch hiking to Long Key, learning what it meant to live away from home for the first time and, in general, not doing what I was supposed to do, which was study and get a degree. My class in Physical Geology was fun and interesting but the prospects of having to then take calculus, inorganic chemistry, and minerology was a bit much. I stopped attending my other classes -- in fact, it's been so long, I can't even remember what other classes I skipped! I was not ready for college. So, I left Miami in January 1973 and went to work as a material handler ($2.50/hour) at Deck House, Inc., a building company in Acton, Massachusetts.
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