Nancy:
--Retired
--Owner/Managing Partner, Kinkead Ridge Winery responsible for marketing, sales, tasting, delivery.
--Certified chef, trained at Portland Culinary Institute in Oregon
--District SE Manager, Sun Microsystems, Portland Oregon
--System Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Portland Oregon
--Technical Support Specialist, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View California
--Software Engineer, Unidot, California
--BS Computer Science UC Santa Cruz
--Established cold type composition at Graphic Arts Center, Portland Oregon
--Valedictorian, Notre Dame Academy High School, Staten Island NY
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--Auditioned for Phil Spector on a Gretsch single pickup hollow body guitar,1964
--Saw the Beatles from the front row Carnegie Hall, Feb. 12, 1964
--Lived in London, 1968-1971.
--Banjo player. Moved to NC for the music scene and the Kruger Brothers!
--Bucket List: I've pretty much done everything I wanted to including skydiving except for scuba diving and seeing the Beatles Love show in Las Vegas!
--Mother of 4 rescue cats. Angel, Elsie, Freddy, and Molly. 
--In 2019 toured southwest Ireland.
--In 2018 spent 11 days in Normandy with best friends Norma Sullivan and Inge Konther
--Hated to sell my Forest Service ski cabin overlooking the ZigZag River in Oregon, 20 minutes from Timberline Lodge and skiing, when we moved to Ohio.
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Ron:
--Retired
--Established Kinkead Ridge estate vineyard in Ripley Ohio. Wines were internationally recognized, one of two Ohio wineries in the massive reference Opus Vino. Also made the list of 100 Most Exciting Wine Finds in the World (published in England)
--Established Pinot Noir vineyard in Oregon that was sold to Tony Soter
--Tektronix, designer and engineering manager
--Taltron, Boston, Engineering Manager
--Worked at Los Alamos 
--Ham Radio operator WB7PMP
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--Born and raised in Columbus Ohio.
--Sister Cathy lives in Maine. 
--Graduated Upper Arlington High School.
--Helped out on family farm, worked as an auto mechanic to earn several degrees from multiple universities, finishing up with an MSEE at University of New Mexico.
--Father of 4 rescue cats.
--Hobbies: Electronic and antenna design and rehabilitating old electronics, including radios.
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