Family Update
2010
That's the old stone house. We've been
there since 1989 and have renovated just about everything but the cobblestone structure.
Here's the story of the renovation and a few pictures.
Ethan turned twelve in
April, on the same
day his mom (Patricia) turned . . . well I can't say.
Patricia
is in her forth three year term as the Executive Director of the New York Water Environment Association! While
working full time for the association she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in
Nonprofit Management from Empire State College and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit
Management from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio (1998)... and, then had a baby!
WOW!!!
Pat is also a
member of the Oneida Lake Association and a Board Member of the
Cleveland Historical Society.
After seven and a half years as Mayor of the Village of Cleveland (Feb. 1995-July 2002) I retired
after serving out my 4th term and not seeking re-election. I term-limited myself! Cleveland is located on the North
Shore of Oneida Lake, about thirty-five miles North of Syracuse in Oswego County, New York.
In 1996 I became involved with a startup
Environmental company and I was selected by the Board of Directors to become the company's
president. The company received a United States patent for it's innovative water and
wastewater treatment technology in the summer of 1998 and in Aug. 1999 we sold of the
company. Since Pat had just been selected as the new Executive Director of NYWEA, I took
the opportunity to enjoy the company of my son Ethan and became a stay at home dad for
awhile!
In June 2003, with Ethan preparing to
start full-day Kindergarten in the fall, I fulfilled a long held dream and started a
publishing company called The Forager Press,
LLC. Our first publication was released on September 6th (my birthday)
entitled Black
Mold Your Health and Your Home by Richard F. Progovitz. I developed a web site for the company which includes a bookstore, a gallery, an
informational section about the Adirondacks,
and an online field
guide for finding, identifying and preparing edible wild plants and
mushrooms.
Our second publication Adirondack Characters and
Campfire Yarns by William J. O'Hern is in its fifth printing and doing
fantastic.
 My first book
is out, entitled
"Under an Adirondack
Influence: The Life of A. L. Byron-Curtiss." A second
book is due out soon, called "Adirondack Adventures,"
which will contain the turn of the century photo journals of Harvey Dunham, the author of
"Adirondack French Louie."
My co-author on both projects is my good friend William J. O'Hern. Jay
and I are also partners in an online bookstore Adirondack-Books.com
I am a DEC certified
Search and Rescue Crew Boss and searve as Treasurer of the Central
Adirondack Search and Rescue Team (CASART). I am also on the training and
communications committees and teach classes in human tracking for the
team as well as being the designer and webmaster for the team's web site CASART.org.
I still host the archives of the
the Central
New York Mycological Society (CNYMS) at the Forager Press Web site where you'll
find lots of interesting information and recipes about edible wild
plants and mushrooms
Send an email "roy -at-
theforagerpress.com" to say hello, we'd like to hear from you. Thanks for stopping
by! (If you copy and paste the email address change the -at- to @)
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