Burnard, Jacob

Jake . . . that's how he's known, and that's what I call him. With the exception of an occasional Mountain Man or Grizzly Adams reference due to his beard and big boned features, that's what everybody calls him. . . Jake. Born in southern California in 1982, he was the youngest with two tough brothers and a passionately assertive sister. Not a privileged or a formally educated family, but that gave Jake what really mattered - the ability and essentially an open-ended invitation to be whatever he desired. His mother was taken by cancer in the year 2000 at the young age of 44. Jake was only seve...