Robert Byrd:
CLASS OF 1973
North Side High SchoolClass of 1973
Ft. wayne, IN
North Carolina State UniversityClass of 1980
Raleigh, NC
Pine Forest High SchoolClass of 1973
Fayetteville, NC
South Side High SchoolClass of 1972
Ft. wayne, IN
Robert's Story
Life
After finishing at Northside I went to North Carolina State University and finished in Mechanical Engineering. From there I hired on at the shipyard in Newport News, Va and stayed there for 22 years. Then the planets finally aligned and I met the gal who became my wife and quit my job to move to England to be with her. We spent 2-1/2 years in England. After that we moved to Switzerland and made many road trips around Europe. We were there for three years and how have moved ba...Expand for more
ck to North Carolina, where I'm pursuing writing as a career and am working on my second book. Somewhere in the middle of all that I built a few wooden boats, found my inner indolence and learned how to smile from the inside. Not much to talk about for more than half a century of living, but then Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was past 80 so I suppose there's hope yet for good things to come.
Update: I now have two books on Amazon. The new one is called Watersong.
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