Acknowledgments
Buddy and I would like to single out Hamlin Endicott, Harvey Rubin, Barrett Batson and Candice Dyer. Without their advice and encouragement, this piece of work would never have been realized. Their acts, though seemingly small, have made all the difference in helping us get over the top. (Image C)
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Ray Lampe and John T. Edge, who I am now proud to call colleagues.
Buddy would like to single out Laura Dobson, Anja Tigges, Mitzi Cartee and Eric Mills for taking him in when it was just too hot to hang out in an unairconditioned pickup truck.
Not in any particular order or function: J. Bradley Deal, Sheral Frohberg, Tim Springfield, John Donham, Scott Coleman, the Young family (homes in Texas and North Carolina), The Littwitz Family, Ken Lambert, Jack Fisher, Laurie Connor Jarrett, Mike and Jennifer Morrison, Mark Greenberg, Casey Coyne, Francis Parks, Nancy Bolling, Mitchell and Roni Moskowitz, Sadler Taylor, Stan Woodward, Walt Rogers, and all those wonderful librarians in towns big and small who didn’t need to reference anything to steer me to the best barbecue around.
The good folks at Gibbs Smith, Publisher, not the least of which are Gibbs Smith, Pete Wyrick, Suzanne Taylor, Melissa Barlow, Kurt Wahlner, Jessica McKenzie, Renee Wald and Madge Baird.
My wonderful family who makes everything possible. My sisters (in chronological order) Beth, Deborah, Rachel and Martha. And especially my parents, Jack and Margaret, who would hope against incredible odds that their idiot son would someday find himself, which he did, somewhere on the open road between the pages of this book.