Greg Pruitt:  

After my first marriage was over I left Ft.Worth in the mid 80's to the Miami, Ft.Lauderdale area seeking job advancement in the printing industry an industry which I enjoyed being in for 38 years total. Went through hurricane Andrew in 1992 in Plantation, Florida a little west of Ft. Lauderdale. After 9 years, opportunity took me to the Mountain View N.C. region for a pressroom managers position at the Hickory Printing Group in Conover North Carolina where I lived in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains for three and a half years, the autumn trees were stunning, the winters were snowy and picturesque, and I could be in the mountains in 45 minutes easily, not to mention a couple of major winter storms that were awesome and beautiful and unfortunately deadly! Four years later,opportunity again took me to Bowie Maryland, midway between Annapolis Md. and Washington D.C. for a plant managers job at Editors Press, the largest union printing group in the D.C. area in Hyattsville, Maryland. ( Talk about blizzards and snow O.M.G.!!!!) Lived only a stones throw from the White House, in fact my dishes rattled in the china cabinet when that plane slammed into the Pentagon on 9-11. That coupled with the beltway sniper incident ( when the snipers shot the young man at Benjamin Tasker middle school in Bowie, my 10 year old son Shane was in Rockledge elementary school a mi...Expand for more