Acknowledgments

With many thanks to many people who helped me with information for this book. They include Betsy Peters, who okays the chocolate bits; lawmen Jim Avance, Bob Swartz, and Lieutenant Ralph Mason; Nancy Anderson, gallery director, artist, and art show expert; Ginny Weber, of Jeff’s Key and Safe; photographer David Gill; truck owner David Walker; and Susanna Fennema, who keeps an eye on new wrinkles in anthropology. As always, I owe my Michigan neighbors, Susan McDermott, Tracy Paquin, and Dick Trull, big-time. And thanks to Johnny Owens, who with a generous donation to the Lawton Arts for All Campaign bought the right to have his real name used for a fictional character.