James Dunn:  

Hello Everyone, I am currently retired in The Villages, FL. Living the good life after a lot of years in the business world. My wife, Susan, who is the light of my life, and I lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains on a small mountain lake in the Hickory Nut Gorge for thirteen years. Susan and I were married in 1984 and share four children, and eight grandchildren in a blended family. The kids are scattered from Berea, Ohio; Roanoke, Virginia; Clover, South Carolina; and Sanford, Florida. We play Pickleball,golf, travel, read.. We are both instrument rated pilots and owned a small airplane (C-182) for both adventure and utliity. Several years ago, we flew her to Central America for a couple of weeks. We finally sold her in the spring of 2017. It was like cutting your arm off. In the summer of 2014, I flew the 182 to Alaska with my friend Rob Craig. What an adventure -65 hours round trip through Whitehorse and Dawson. Rob did the Dead Toe shot in Dawson - a generous shot of whiskey with a dead, frost bitten toe in it. I was too old and not enough years left to tell the story to make it worthwhile. Our traveling since retirerment has been so much fun. . We have seen China, Jordan, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Russia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Argentina, Argentina, Greece, and the British Islands. We have a trip around the world scheduled in January 2018. After selling Foresight Technology Group, I stayed active in business by serving on the Board of Directors of two employee owned companies. I spent 9 years on the Boards at Carver Machine Works in Washington NC and Lewis Tree Service in Rochester NY which was a great honor. I helped start the Hickory Nut Gorge Foundation, a small endowment for the community, which is one of my proudest achievements. I also do some investment management stuff and started Tatanka (real estate development in Lake Lure.) I started and ran a couple of Aaron's stores in Elkin and Boone, NC. We sold those in 2013 and still own the buildings and lease them to Aarons. In February 2011, we spent an entire month in Boquete, Panama. Rented a house and just hung in the mountains....Expand for more