Earle, James

James Earle was born and raised in Mississippi County, Arkansas, just north of Memphis on U.S. Highway 61. A graduate of the Blytheville High School Class of '57, he was there, by dumb luck perfectly positioned, in what has to have been the Golden Age of Adolescence. After graduating from college in 1961, he spent the next sixteen years in residential, farm, and commercial real estate finance and investment analysis. He was a faculty member at a regional state university from which he is currently retired - throughout the eventful '80s. His boyhood role model was screen actor John Wayne, but h...