Acknowledgments

 

First, a huge thank-you to my wife, Patty Finn, who offered much-appreciated advice and a lot of patience for the two and a half years I worked on this book. LYS.

I also want to thank the following for their help, beginning with David Contosta, the author and Chestnut Hill College professor. A friend of Jim and Mary Bond, David wrote The Private Life of James Bond in 1993 and graciously shared his knowledge and archives with me.

In Philadelphia and environs, I wish to thank Nate Rice, Robert McCracken Peck, Jennifer Vess, Jason D. Weckstein, Dan Thomas, and Carolyn Belardo of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University; Caitlin Goodman and Joseph Shemtov of the Free Library of Philadelphia; Deanne D’Emilio, Jerry McLaughlin, Sister Kati McMahon, and Dawn Caruano of Gwynedd Mercy University; George Armistead; Harry Armistead; Frank Gill; Bert Filmyer of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club; Scott McConnell; Keith S. Thomson; and Sue Phillips of the Church of the Messiah.

In Cuba: Orlando Garrido, Gary Markowski of the Caribbean Conservation Trust, and Frank Medina and Osmani Borrego Fernandez. In Jamaica: Ricardo Miller of Arrowhead Birding Tours, Catherine Levy of the Windsor Research Centre, Anthony Gambrill, and Ramsey Acosta, Lauren Wintemberg, and the staff at GoldenEye.

In Maine: Michael J. Good of Downeast Nature Tours, Kate Chaplin, Becky Marvil of the Acadia Bird Festival, Sean Charette of the Wendell Gilley Museum, Rich MacDonald of the Natural History Center, Elly Andrews and Kate Young of the Northeast Library, and Karen Craig of the Southwest Harbor Historical Society.

Elsewhere: David Levesque of St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire; Mike Berry of the University of South Carolina; Mark Ridgway and Tace Fox of Harrow School, Harrow, London; Jonathan Smith of Trinity College, Cambridge, England; Anna Raff; Samuel Turvey; Storrs Olson; Herbert Raffaele; Eamonn Cummings; the staff of Lee Memorial Library in Allendale, New Jersey; Hiroki Fukuda; Charles Tyson Jr.; and Mimi Sabatino (for her help and expertise on the images in this book).

Jim Bond in the early 1950s. Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department