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I became an avid reader at a young age, thanks to a combination of my mother's encouragement to read, the book availability provided by school and public libraries, and the rewards of Pizza Hut's "Book It" program. I never lost my love of reading, which mostly focused on non-fiction. In high school, I spent a year reading Shelby Foote's famous trilogy, The Civil War: A Narrative. All my life I have predominately read nonfiction, including some biography.

Since 2014, I have been Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society in Jupiter, Florida. I am also a Historian for the Florida Lighthouse Association. In that capacity I've been a frequent history public speaker and contributor to national and local magazin ...more

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	Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee: A Pictorial History of Jupiter/Tequesta, Florida by James D. Snyder (Goodreads Author), Josh Liller (Goodreads Author) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Florida Lighthouse Trail by Josh Liller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Bradley (Illustrator) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond

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“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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“Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”
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“A flash of the lightning,
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― William Knox

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― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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“He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.”
― James Traub, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

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