Rudolph Darling:  

Brief bio: After BEHS I went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio for 5 years, earning a BA in Biology. My third year I spent in Germany where I attended the Universität Tübingen for two semesters, worked in a forestry research station in Stuttgart, spent 2 weeks in Istanbul, traveled on the Orient Express, spent a month hitchhiking around Greece, and three weeks on a class field trip to Scandanavia and Finland. As part of the college's coop work program I worked at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago), a lab near Bear Mt., New York, a school camp in New Hampshire, Antioch's nature museum, and a field project in Wyoming. I got married the day before graduation to California girl, Jeanne Bailey. After a summer job at Bear Mt. State Park (NY) we went to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, where I attended graduate school and got an MS in Ecology. At Antioch I had learned to play banjo, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle. In Minnesota I joined a bluegrass band which already had guitar, banjo, and mandolin, so I took up fiddling in earnest. After I left grad school I worked 4 years repairing stringed in...Expand for more