I was born in Pawtucket, R.I. on March 17,1948. When I was nine my family moved to South County where I made an amazing transformation from cityslicker to country bumpkin At about this time I decided that the word Quahog was actually pretty funny. But I kept it to myself. I attended Chariho High School in Wood River Junction the coldest place on earth. On February 25th 1962 they recorded a low temperature of 987 degrees below 0 During my high school years I drew weird pictures of my classmates and teachers while trying to ignore algebra. They put them in the class of 66 yearbook. Even the ones of the principal and superintendent A career is born making fun of people. Then the U.S. Navy got me. They made me live in California, Florida and Washington D.C. The people I met in those places thought I talked funny and they thought I was from Boston, of all places. When they said that I had to slap them around a little. I made sure they learned about R.I. When I got out of the Navy I married Laura Partelo of Ashaway, R.I. Laura was just starting graduate school so I had to get a job. Remember, this is true stuff. So I got a job as a private detective for Pinkertons International Detective Agency. My first assignment was as an undercover investigator in a sanitary napkin factory I caught the crooks. It was kind of fun being a private eye but I thought I should go to college and maybe get a degree in art. I took a basic art course during my first semester at U.R.I. I got a c I changed my major to anthropology. Armed with my anthropology degree I started my field work among the colorful yet odd group of people known as Rhode Islanders. I wore a suit, carried a briefcase and daily went off to the city to my job which was really cultural anthropology fieldwork. For six years I put my Pinkerton experience and my anthropology training to use. In 1980 I was ready to report on my findings. Beware of the Quahog was my first book. It went through eleven printings. I was on to something Then came 12 more books most with the word Quahog in the title. Barnes and Noble says I sell more books in R.I. than Stephen King. There are no Stephen King books with Quahog in the title.

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