The Author was born in Canton, Ohio March 2, 1935 He joined the Army in 1955, married the beautiful Dorothy Anne Parks in 1956 and they had two children. In 1963they acquired a fifty-seven acre three-hundred foot deep tree shrouded totally hidden valley near Paris Ohio. It sported an eight acre lake on the valley floor. They established Hidden Valley Lake Park providing rainbow trout fishing, swimming, picnicking, and eventually camping. After eleven years, they sold Hidden Valley when he was offered a partnership in an auto salvage operation in Stuart FL fifty miles North of Tampa. In retirem...