ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are intended to tell people who have been instrumental in helping to create a book know how much their participation means. In this sense, it would be impossible to acknowledge how much Ron Powers contributed, for his work meant everything to this story. He can never know how much his effort impressed, focused, inspired, and informed this project, and me. Thank you, Ron, from my heart.

I’d like to thank Rick Horgan and Julian Pavia at Crown for their patience and professionalism. John Talbot, my agent, and Jim Hornfisher, Ron’s agent, both deserve recognition and gratitude for bringing this project together. My dear friend Tim Murphy showed me such enthusiasm, optimism, and support throughout the entire process that I fail to see how he is not as much a critical part of the story as Whittle himself.

My family has helped me work on this story for years, and Cousin Beverly Dabney, by providing me her records and motivation, really was as much an inspiration as Whittle’s own writing. I truly could not have done this without her. Robert and Kennon Baldwin, my brothers, have provided material and psychic support, and also did a fine job of reading the early versions; thanks also go to Catlin and Alison Baldwin for the use of KWB. My cousins Jim and Melody Baldwin, and Ann Blade Stauffer, who made my visits in Norfolk possible, and Frank Blackford, who made such an important research contribution when the going was toughest, all get my heartfelt thanks.

My good friends Ed and Nan Lazaron, Connie Fisher, Peter Campanaro, Ashe Gupta, Patricia, Chris and Madeline Valando-Meech, and Margo McFarland also deserve acknowledgment, all for vastly different reasons.

In addition, Robert Hitchings and Troy at the Norfolk Public Library, and the folks at The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, were very helpful. Also, I am so grateful to Ann Morgan at the Taylor-Whittle Home in Norfolk, who escorted us through the wonderful old house. It revived memories of my boyhood when we would visit my cousin Beverly Dabney, Conway Whittle’s granddaughter, while she still lived there.

I would also like to thank the pros who helped translate my garbled diction: Transcribers are Cindy Kimball of Kimball Office Services, Inc., Bristol, Vermont, and Meredith Fletcher of Castleton College, Castleton, Vermont.

These next friends have made various contributions, and I am grateful to them all: Dr. Linus Abrams, Lawrence Altman, Jamie Arcuri, Keith and Stuart Baldwin, Dave Barnes and Alanna, Danny Barror, Ron Bernstein, John and Ann Blackford, Frank and Polly Blackford, Cary Baldwin Blade, Joe Blumenthal, Dr. Joseph Boldt, John Boswell, Rick Boucher, Stefan and Chisuko Broinowski, Stuart Bronfeld, H. Lee Browne, Mary Calderhead, Chris Canavan, Debbie Choate, Mike Collins, Paul Dadonna, Ward and Diane Davol, Dick Dickerson, Art Doumtjes, Loren and Mickey Dubno, Nicole Eisenman, Ken Eshelman, David Eyre, Susan Fisher, Sheila Fortune, Alfred Franci, Patricia Fullerton, Josh Greenstein, Vena Gupta, Drew Haluska, Dr. William Hampton, Judy Hart, Ron and Jim Hollar, Craig Hurley, Moira Incorvaia, Angela Ingrao, David and Ken Jacobsen, my uncle Whittle Johnston, my aunt Martha Johnston, my uncle Jim Johnston, Rebecca Johnston, Sarah Kernochan, Georgie Koulianos, David Lewis, Jane Lewis, Marci Mansfield, Molly March, John Markham, Skip McNomee, JR Meadows, Andy and Pat Micek, Maureen “Nanni” Micek, Dave Miles, Joe Mulvey, Dr. Mark Newberg, Dr. David Nocek, Joe Ossorio, Aldo and Henry Pascarella, Rob and Gale Penn, Dee Pridgon, Dr. Sunil Rana, Samantha Richardson, Eric and Rosemary Spahr, Dr. John Sparks, Ron Strahn, Ed Tedeschi, Susie Fisher Thorness, Dr. Larry Toder, Rob Toohey and Krissy Clarke, Gary Trageser, Derek Uhlman, Petion Vitillus, Ron Warzoha, Anne A. White, Bailey White, Susanne Coloneri Whittle, Knox Wibberley, Dr. Felice Zwas.

I also want to acknowledge the support, suggestions, and intelligent criticism I received from my son, John Macky Baldwin IV.

—John Baldwin