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This user enjoys fishing for all species of trout.

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Virginia Tech

I know a thing or two about physics and physicists.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 11 months and 22 days.

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My latest Wikipedia pursuits are list in the box to the right.

I am interested in local history and biographies of early settlers in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Minnesota. I find the U.S. American Revolution a fascinating period of time to explore. It is astounding how much information is available today through the Internet on the colonial time period.

I am an advanced novice Wiki markup user and love learning new ways to add and format content. Thank goodness for the bots and kind users that help find my typos and spelling mistakes. I welcome your feedback.

These are a few of my favorite books and movies:

Lawrence of Arabia (film) by David Lean, 1962
Richard Rhodes (1986). The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Obama, Barack (1995). Dreams from My Father-A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Levinson, Peter J. (2005). Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way: a Biography. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press. (ISBN 9780306811111)

Local history interests

Awards

	Military history service award
	For scoring 88 points in the WikiProject Military history September 2019 edit-a-thon Backlog Banzai

	The Special Barnstar
	For work on Project North Carolina

	The WikiProject Barnstars
	Runner-up in the Military Historian of the Year awards for 2019. For tremendous contributions to the WikiProject Hospitals

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For hard work and diligence in working on the Nursing Wikiproject

Revolutionary War interests

List of North Carolina militia units in the American Revolution Wikipedia:Featured List Nomination

v t e North Carolina Provincial troops (Not Militia), North Carolina Line, and North Carolina militia in the American Revolutionary War
North Carolina's Provincial and State Troops (Not Militia)	1st North Carolina Regiment 2nd North Carolina Regiment Edenton District Minuteman Battalion Halifax District Minuteman Battalion Hillsborough District Minuteman Battalion New Bern District Minuteman Battalion Salisbury District Minuteman Battalion 2nd Salisbury District Minuteman Battalion Wilmington District Minuteman Battalion North Carolina Light Dragoons Regiment Independent Companies of Provincial Troops North Carolina Artillery Companies French Refugees Regiment North Carolina State Regiment North Carolina Light Dragoons Regiment Ocracoke Independent Company North Carolina State Cavalry-Western District North Carolina Light Horse Regiment North Carolina State Legion Regiment
Continental Army, North Carolina Line	1st North Carolina Regiment 2nd North Carolina Regiment 3rd North Carolina Regiment 4th North Carolina Regiment 5th North Carolina Regiment 6th North Carolina Regiment 7th North Carolina Regiment 8th North Carolina Regiment 9th North Carolina Regiment 10th North Carolina Regiment North Carolina Light Dragoons Regiment
North Carolina Militia	Edenton District Brigade 1st Regiment of North Carolina Militia 2nd Regiment of North Carolina Militia Bertie County Regiment Camden County Regiment Chowan County Regiment Currituck County Regiment Gates County Regiment Hertford County Regiment Martin County Regiment 1st Pasquotank County Regiment 2nd Pasquotank County Regiment Perquimans County Regiment Tyrrell County Regiment Halifax District Brigade 1st Battalion of Volunteers 2nd Battalion of Volunteers Bute County Regiment Edgecombe County Regiment Franklin County Regiment Halifax County Regiment Martin County Regiment Nash County Regiment Northampton County Regiment Warren County Regiment Hillsborough District Brigade Caswell County Regiment Chatham County Regiment Granville County Regiment Mounted Volunteers Regiment Northern Orange County Regiment Orange County Regiment Randolph County Regiment Wake County Regiment New Bern District Brigade Beaufort County Regiment Carteret County Regiment Craven County Regiment Dobbs County Regiment Hyde County Regiment Johnston County Regiment Jones County Regiment Pitt County Regiment Wayne County Regiment Morgan District Brigade Davidson County Regiment Greene County Regiment Salisbury District Brigade Anson County Regiment Burke County Regiment Guilford County Regiment Lincoln County Regiment Mecklenburg County Regiment 2nd Mecklenburg County Regiment Montgomery County Regiment Richmond County Regiment Rowan County Regiment 2nd Rowan County Regiment Rutherford County Regiment Sullivan County Regiment Surry County Regiment Tryon County Regiment Washington District Regiment Washington County Regiment Wilkes County Regiment Wilmington District Brigade 1st Battalion of Militia 2nd Battalion of Militia Bladen County Regiment Brunswick County Regiment Cumberland County Regiment Duplin County Regiment New Hanover County Regiment Onslow County Regiment Overmountain Men

North Carolina general assemblies and provincial congresses on-going work

Completed: All five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, Province of North Carolina General Assembly of 1775, North Carolina General Assemblies of 1777–1785, 1835–1836, 1860–1862, 1899, 2001–2019.

v t e North Carolina General Assemblies by year convened and order
List of North Carolina state legislatures Senate President pro tempore of the Senate House of Commons House of Representatives Speakers of the House of Representatives (see Note)	1 (1777) 2 (1778) 3 (1779) 4 (1780) 5 (1781) 6 (1782) 7 (1783) 8 (Apr 1784) 9 (Oct 1784) 10 (1785) 11 (1786) 12 (1787) 13 (1788) 14 (1789) 15 (1790) 16 (1791) 17 (1792) 18 (1793) 19 (1794) 20 (1795) 21 (1796) 22 (1797) 23 (1798) 24 (1799) 25 (1800) 26 (1801) 27 (1802) 28 (1803) 29 (1804) 30 (1805) 31 (1806) 32 (1807) 33 (1808) 34 (1809) 35 (1810) 36 (1811) 37 (1812) 38 (1813) 39 (1814) 40 (1815) 41 (1816) 42 (1817) 43 (1818) 44 (1819) 45 (1820) 46 (1821) 47 (1822) 48 (1823) 49 (1824) 50 (1825) 51 (1826) 52 (1827) 53 (1828) 54 (1829) 55 (1830) 56 (1831) 57 (1832) 58 (1833) 59 (1834) 60 (1835) 61 (1836) 62 (1840) 63 (1842) 64 (1844) 65 (1846) 66 (1846) 67 (1848) 68 (1850) 69 (1852) 70 (1854) 71 (1856) 72 (1858) 73 (1860) 74 (1862) 75 (1864) 76 (1865) 77 (1866) 78 (1868) 79 (1869) 80 (1870) 81 (1872) 82 (1874) 83 (1876) 84 (1879) 85 (1881) 86 (1883) 87 (1885) 88 (1887) 89 (1889) 90 (1891) 91 (1893) 92 (1895) 93 (1897) 94 (1899) 95 (1901) 96 (1903) 97 (1905) 98 (1907) 99 (1909) 100 (1911) 101 (1913) 102 (1915) 103 (1917) 104 (1919) 105 (1921) 106 (1923) 107 (1925) 108 (1927) 109 (1929) 110 (1931) 111 (1933) 112 (1935) 113 (1937) 114 (1939) 115 (1941) 116 (1943) 117 (1945) 118 (1947) 119 (1949) 120 (1951) 121 (1953) 122 (1955) 123 (1957) 124 (1959) 125 (1961) 126 (1963) 127 (1965) 128 (1967) 129 (1969) 130 (1971) 131 (1973) 132 (1975) 133 (1977) 134 (1979) 135 (1981) 136 (1983) 137 (1985) 138 (1987) 139 (1989) 140 (1991) 141 (1993) 142 (1995) 143 (1997) 144 (1999) 145 (2001) 146 (2003) 147 (2005) 148 (2007) 149 (2009) 150 (2011) 151 (2013) 152 (2015) 153 (2017) 154 (2019) 155 (2021) 156 (2023)
Other	Executive Branch: Governor of North Carolina (List), Lieutenant Governor (since 1868), Cabinets, Council of State, Attorney General
Conventions	Hillsborough Convention of 1788, Fayetteville Convention of 1789
Provincial Congresses and Constitution	North Carolina Provincial Congress (1774–1776: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th), Constitution of North Carolina (1776, 1835 Convention, 1861 Convention, 1868 redraft, 1875 Convention, Constitution of 1971)
Notes: Prior to the Constitution of 1868: the lower house of the North Carolina Legislature was known as the House of Commons and the leader of the Senate was called the Speaker of the Senate.

Music interests

Musicians and bands

Concert Band Music

Pini di Roma Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi
Holiday for Trombones by David Rose
Russian Easter Festival Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Italien by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Colonel Bogey March
Russian Christmas by Alfred Reed
Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
Suite of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Bennett
Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
Scenes from the Louvre by Norman Dello Joio
Born to be Wild

Useful pages and resources

Wikipedia Help and Portals

Help:Sorting
Portal:American Revolutionary War
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/American Revolutionary War task force
Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment
Blackford County, Indiana a good county to emulate
My edit count
m-dash (1727–1796) or (1727–1796) vice -

18th Century Databases

Wayback Search
NCPEDIA
NC Land Grants
RevWarApps (Pensions)
DAR Research
Rowan Deed Search
Land and Property Searches
Lewis, J.D. "The American Revolution in North Carolina".
Lewis, J.D. "Historical Documents of the Legislative Branch". Carolana.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
Iredell Deed Search
NY Public Library Digital Collection
North Carolina Biography resource on FamilySearch.org

Books

Wheeler, John H. (1874). "The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina". google.com. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
Connor, R.D.D. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
Hunter, Cyrus Lee (1877). "Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical: Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln, and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of it Never Before Published". pp. 166–183. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
Ramsey, Robert (1964). Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747–1762. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4189-1.
Ervin, Samuel, Jr (1917). A Colonial History of Rowan County, North Carolina. University of North Carolina, Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved April 16, 2019.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Keever, Homer M. (November 1976). Iredell Piedmont County, with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller. Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark. p. 44.((cite book)): CS1 maint: date and year (link)
Davis, Charles L. (1896). A Brief History of the North Carolina Troops on the Continental Establishment in the War of the Revolution with a Register of Officers of the Same (PDF). Retrieved January 30, 2019.
Iredell Piedmont County. Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark. 1976., with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller; "Iredell, Piedmont County". Retrieved February 7, 2019.
Cheney, John L., Jr., ed. (1975). North Carolina Government, 1585-1974, A Narrative and Statistical History.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

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Organizations	American Museum of Fly Fishing Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum Flyfishers' Club Fly Fishers International Trout Unlimited World Fly Fishing Championships
Literature	Bibliography of fly fishing (species related) Bibliography of fly fishing Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction) Pseudonyms of notable angling authors The American Angler's Book Blacker's Art of Fly Making Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice Favorite Flies and Their Histories Floating Flies and How to Dress Them Fly Fishing (Grey book) Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days The Fly-fisher's Entomology Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream The Salmon Fly The Way of a Trout with the Fly