Greasy Creek (ePub)

About the Author

Born in St. Louis, MO in 1937, Larry, (called Bud by his in-laws), was not to remain a city boy for long. At the age of five, after a brief ten month stay in the sunny state of California, he found himself on a dairy farm south of Farmington, MO. in St. Francois County. He was to spend most of his time on some farm until he left home at the age of 17 to begin his world travels.



However, one of those farms would be more memorable than the others. That was the year he would be in the 7th grade and live along Greasy Creek. Strangely enough this move would take him into Ste. Genevieve county as his Great ... Grandfather had done back in the 1700's when the city of Ste. Genevieve was founded and he became the proprietor of the first inn west of the Mississippi River. This was a fact of history that Larry would not be aware of until many years later as he had little interest in education prior to becoming a man.



At 17 Larry entered the military, again as his Great ... Grandfather had done when he joined with George Rogers Clark’s forces and became the flag bearer in the capture of Fort Vincennes in Indiana during the Revolutionary War, On his second tour of duty, (the Army first then the Air Force), Larry finally made a belated start on his formal education. It would culminate many years later with a masters degree in, of all things, educational administration. Along the way he would not only accumulate some 240 semester hours of formal education, but also many informal programs such as: carpentry, heavy equipment operation, truck driving, long range radar repair, electronics, emergency medical training, pilot's license, (bush flying in Alaska), IBM office products repair, auto-body repair, and repelling instructor.



Larry, with his late wife Patsy, daughter Susan and their German Shepherd, Ginger, moved to Alaska in 1972 where he would teach a number of things, including 7th grade science. A far cry from his time

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