Robert Frye:  

I was the first baby born on Christmas in the last year of the forties, part of the tail end of the baby boom. As the last of five children my mother learned my name by reading it in the local paper. In Phoenix I first graduated from Kenilworth grade school (and I have the t-shirt to prove it) then West Phoenix High School and for the first year of college, Phoenix College. I have spent most of my life in the Sonoran Desert living near the Arizona-Mexico border and have traveled many of the back roads and navigable rivers in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. I was educated both as an undergrad and grad at the University of Arizona and as fate would have it ended up back in Arizona as both research and teaching faculty. I had a very interesting life there working on the infamous Biosphere 2 project, researching various ‘green...Expand for more