William Korb:  

Life Somewhere in the spring of 1970 while holed up at Centre College in Danville (Podunk) KY, I began making plans to do my own Jack Kerouac version of "On the Road." I completed my sophomore year, returned home and made some summer cash, and hit the road thumbing and hopping trains for a couple years--meeting a wide variety of people, stopping along the way to pick up cash doing odd jobs. After being held at gunpoint in Richmond, VA, I cashed in my last wad of change and took a bus to friends in the Boston area, put together another travel stake, and headed back south, where I worked as a district manager for the Miami Herald, a ticket agent at Greyhound, and a postal clerk at the SCF facility on Oakland Park. I was also taking classes at FAU, where I went from Communications to Fine Arts to...by chance, a volunteer gig working with kids on the fringe, which really clicked. I finally finished my nine-year BA plan in 1979 (English Ed.) and again faced a crossroads--continue working in Nantucket summers and Palm Beach winters with my restaurant cronies, or take one of 9 teaching jobs I had. I chose to stay in Florida and worked at Congress Middle in Boynton Beach from 1979-1982, but, on a teacher's salary, realized my chances of owning land in Florida were pretty slim. About the time I began making plans to move to Athens, OH and attend grad school at Ohio University (Sports Administration), I crossed over from the "professional" to "personal" with a similar sun-loving, mellow-living friend, who happened to be from Ohio and also was feeling the urge to escape the crowded crunch of S. Florida. We moved to Athens in 1982, lived in some pretty cool places while looking for land, and finally invested in 10 acres of beautiful forests and built a log home in 1985, then added on in 1994. Kathie and I became proud parents of a wonderfully compassionate, kind, and funny son on October 1, 1987, and then, as nature would have it, conceived id...Expand for more