© 1989
Special thanks…
To Marian Smith Collins and Bob Collins for their help with the Calhoun setting and the law…
To Gunnery Sgt. Richard E. Martelli, United States Marine Corps, for sharing his invaluable knowledge of Marine history…
And to Carol Gatts, midwife and beekeeper, for keeping old traditions alive and for letting us glimpse them…
To my favorite authors,
Tom & Sharon Curtis
who by their writing
have taught, entertained and inspired.
With deepest admiration.