Dick Nevitt:  

I attended two high school and dearly loved and miss both. I went to Glendora High School, just east of Los Angeles, California from my Freshman year to half-way into my junior year and then went to live with my paternal grandparents in St. Petersburg Florida where I went to St. Pete High where I graduated from. Left Florida right after graduation to tour the USA with a $99 bus ticket on Greyhound, so that was my home for 99 days; ending up in Vincennes Indiana where I had planned to go the Junior College there so I could transfer to Indiana University's school of photojournalism. Took a summer vacation interest to travel to Tierra del Fuego at the southern most tip of South America but could not get my passport in time so hitchhiked to Alaska instead where also hitchhiking on a remote highway a small airplane piloted by this cool no-pressure preacher circled around landed on the road took me to his home, treated me like a son, bought me a pair of $50 boots so he could hook me into this super high paying job, firefighting, thru his friend at the BLM, Dept. of Interior. Made huge money and very close friends as the only white guy in a 4 man Alaska native polaski crew; enough to last me for a year and pay my college tuition so hooked on Alaska went back two more summers firefighting. Then I got married in Boone North Carolina 1969 and in 1972 we moved our family to Alaska where we were among the last 80 or so homesteaders of the 1860 160 acre Homestead Act, 200 miles from the nearest road in the remote Alaska wilderness. Became a single father in 1975, still on the homestead. In the mid 1970's my good platonic female friend was Alaska's first midwife and from those experiences I got into Lamaze Coaching and homebirthing where two of the babies I caught, (weren't mine tho) from other ladies, quickly became my lifetime unofficially adopted daughters to add to my other two; tho I lived separately from them a...Expand for more