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Interests

Art and art history, travel, computers, reading, bicycling-on and off road, hiking, movies, cowboy stuff.

Favorite Artists

John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn,  Joaquin Sorolla, Isaac Ilich Levitan, Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, Ilia Efimovich Repin, Nicoli Fechin, Sir Alfred Munnings, Carl Rungius, Haddon Sunblom, Frank Tenney Johnson, Peter Severin Kroyer.

Reading List

Non Fiction

The Bible, Douglas S. Freeman's Robert  E. Lee and George Washington biographies, David McCollough's Truman, John Adams, and Teddy Roosevelt biographies; anything by Francis Schaeffer, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, and John Eldridge; Covey' First Things First and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; William Shirer's 2oth Century Journey memoirs;  Richmond P. Hobson Jr.'s Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, The Rancher Takes a Wife.

Fiction

Classics: Anything by Joeseph Conrad, especially Lord Jim, anything by Charles Dickens, Sommerset Maugham's, The Razor's Edge, anything by Mark Twain, especially Roughing It.

Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Frederick Buechner's Son of Laughter.

Movies

Braveheart, Jeremiah Johnson, Lonesome Dove mini-series, Comes a Horseman, We Were Soldiers Once, Missouri Breaks, Parenthood, many of the old 1940s movies, Casa Blanca and most Humphrey Bogart movies, most movies directed by Martin Scorsese, Peter Weir, and Bruce Berresford..

Music

Classical

Mozart, Bach, Correlli, Brahms, Vivaldi (mostly Baroque)

Folk and Blue Grass and what you might call alternative western

John Hartford, Michael Martin Murphey in the early 70's, Michael Nesmith, Guy Clark, old Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Fromholz, Gordon Lightfoot

Classic Rock and Roll

Eric Clapton, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, The Police, Steely Dan

Cowboy Music

New stuff: Don Edwards, Sons of the San Joaquin, Riders in the Sky, New Michael Martin Murphey