George, Lincoln Lloyd

I am in my forties born on an island in the Caribbean "Robinson Crusoes Island."

This author only acknowledges his schooling from kindergarten with Mrs. Lewis through elementary school with Mr. Ewing and through high school with Ken Phillips, Phil Smith, and Mr. Brown in woodworks, not leaving out all the teachers on the way.

I am not the son of a carpenter. I am the builder. But am the son of a tailor and a seamstress who both taught me how to read and write before I was seven years of age. At eight there was nothing I couldn't read or write.

My father was an avid reader and throu...