CHARLES P. (CHUCK) CABELL, JR. is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds Master's Degrees in Astronautics from the Air Force institute of Technology and Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a Doctoral Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He retired from the Air Force as a Brigadier General after a thirty-year career (which included a flying tour in Vietnam), and then spent ten years as a consultant to industry and the government in the areas of System Engineering, Risk Management, Contracting and Project Management.

His musical interests began with minimally sporadic piano lessons as a child and singing with his high school choir. At West Point he was a member of the Glee Club and the cadet co-director of the Catholic Chapel Choir. While in the Air Force, he directed Catholic Choirs at several bases and sang and composed folk songs for guitar. During a tour in the Boston area, he began to study voice seriously with Robert Gartside, of Boston University. While continuing to study voice and piano, he has sung with the Paul Hill Chorale, in Washington DC, the Colorado Springs Chorale, and the Colorado Springs Opera Chorus. He has also performed lieder and art songs in recital. His latest composition, a Christmas song, was performed by the Colorado Springs Chorale in December 1999. He now lives with his wife of thirty-five years in Colorado Springs. He has two grown children - a daughter and a son - and three grandsons. He now devotes his life to writing, music, fishing, and exploring his own spirituality.

ROBERT L. (BOB) CARR is a retired US Army 1st Sergeant with twenty-one years of active duty, including three combat tours in the Republic of Vietnam. Today he is in business for himself under the log "B.C.'s Flies," doing contract fly-tying for C/S Angler in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He teaches fly-tying classes and does custom and special orders. He also gives instruction on fishing from all types of belly boats. Bob resides with his wife for thirty-plus years in Colorado Springs. He has two grown daughters and two grandchildren. He now spends much of his life hunting and fishing.

DALE MILLER began his studies of classical guitar at Butler University in 1973. He holds his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Mexico where he studied with Cuban guitarist Hector Garcia. His formal training continued during seven years of study with maestro Ricardo Iznaola of Denver University. Dale joined the staff of Colorado College in 1992 as an instructor of guitar and mandolin where he directs the college guitar ensemble. He has performed extensively in the Pike's Peak region and is co-owner of North Star Studios, and independent guitar school and recording facility in Colorado Springs. He is also guitar instructor for continuing education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).

While Dale is known primarily as a solo guitarist, he also teaches banjo and old time fiddle, reflecting a long standing interest in American history and folk traditions. This diversity has placed him in a number of unique performance settings including an appearance on guitar and banjo with the Colorado Springs Symphony for Virgil Thomson's "The Plow that Broke the Plains." He has also appeared in UCCS Theaterworks productions for works by John Steinbeck, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, and Charles Dickens. Dale released his first CD in the fall of 1999. "A North Star Christmas" is a collaboration with jazz guitarist Richard Greene and includes traditional as well as original compositions.

DAVID BEIGHTOL, of Beightol PhotoMedia of Colorado Springs is the creative genius behind each of the beautiful book covers. The only instructions necessary were of the order "Here's what the book is about, David." He did the rest with stunning results. After serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War, David finished art school at Metropolitan State College in Denver and threw himself body and soul into photography. By happenstance, he met and worked with world renowned photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, by then hailed as the father of photojournalism. His main work is a mixture of the commercial - with top-flight clients such as the Broadmoor Hotel and many local industries and builders - and the purely artistic. His approach to both is the same. He captures arresting images with his camera and then manipulates them by computer to create something entirely new yet is instantly recognizable. David can be reached at (719) 593-7006.

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