Greek Doric Temples
​Today, I live with my wife, Jane, and our three kids (Elliot, Anderson, and Elizabeth) in Lone Tree, Colorado where I spend much of my time painting watercolors. My art have been shown in galleries and online competitions where I have won or placed as a finalist in several international shows. My initial art training came about when I attended Kent State University majoring in fine art, winning several University sponsored shows including Life Drawing and oil painting. I have since exhibited throughout the U.S. and many of my works hang in corporate or private collections.
My art degree went on hiatus when I enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving four years active duty as a navigation specialist. After my Honorable Discharge, I returned to Kent State and continued my art education. A year later, I transferred to Michigan State University and changed majors to Anthropology and Art History. While there, as both an undergraduate and graduate student, I participated in several Michigan summer archaeological excavations, becoming Crew Chief my final three years. I was also hired by both the Sate of Michigan and Michigan State University to do museum displays and illustrations for their publications. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, I continued to do museum displays for the Mackinac Island State Park and private museum which were featured in magazine and newspaper articles, plus shown on Detroit's PM Magazine TV show. Additionally, I illustrated technical artifact drawings and site maps for university publications throughout the U.S.
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Once I left Michigan and moved to Colorado, I became a contract archaeologist doing Cultural Resource Management surveys within the 14 western states. During that time, I wrote a guide to Great Basin and Northern Plains projectile points. After leaving my archaeology career, I entered the corporate world as a computer programmer and senior software test engineer. It was at his time when I concentrated on finding a mathematical solution to Greek temple proportions. I completed my research nearly ten years later and presented a paper to the Archaeological Institute of America, "Doric Temple Proportions", the abstract published an the American Journal of Archaeology. I am an active speaker for private and civic organizations, giving talks on archaeology.
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I have written three fiction novels that still need tweaking before I put them into publication.
Lectures:
"Archaeological Discovery of Temporal Architecture Through Historic Documents" presented to the Mackinac Island Historical Society.
"History of Private Claims in the Straights of Mackinac Area from 1780 to 1850" presented to Rotary Club, Cheboygan MI.
"Doric Temple Proportions" presented to graduate class at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
"Greek Mythology and Birds" presented to the Evergreen, CO Audubon Society.
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Illustrations appearing in Publication:
"Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1976", Archaeological Completion Report Series, No. 1, Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
"Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1977", Archaeological Completion Report Series, No. 2, Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
"Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1974 and 1975", Archaeological Completion Report Series, No. 7, Office of Archaeology and Historic
Preservation, National Park Service, Washington, D.C..
"The Powder Magazine at Fort Michilimackinac" Reports in Mackinac History and Archaeology, Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
"Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1978 - 1979", Archaeological Completion Report Series, No. 3, Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
The Garfield Orbit, by Margaret Leech and Harry Brown, Harper and Row, NY
"An Archaeological Inventory and Evaluation of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau and Benxie Counties, Michigan"
National Park Service, U.S. Deprt6ment of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
"Late Stone age Fishermen, Lothagam, Kenya" Publications of the Museum Anthropological Series, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI
