JC Shepard, Minnesota, USA

Listen to great community radio KRFC-FM 88.9--

Reporting to Roots Music Report,& Americana Radio Chart

Basics

In real life as Development Planner with the Southwest (MN) Regional Development Commission.
Neat Streaming Audio: KGSR-Austin ; The Whip out of Farmer City; Last.fm
My ugly mug
I have an abiding interest in History & Genealogy.

The Rocky Mountains

I used to work for Larimer County Planning Department, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Worked a few years at Gallatin County Planning Dept, in beautiful downtown Bozeman, Montana.
Gallatin County's West Yellowstone is a port of entry to Yellowstone National Park, the road is open in the summer to Old Faithful. Paradise Valley to the Gardiner gate & Lamar Valley is mighty pretty, too, open year round.
Local News: Bozeman Daily Chronicle .

The Gallatin Valley

"the country opens suddenly to extensive and beautiful plains and meadows which appear to be surrounded in every direction with distant and lofty mountains; supposing this to be the Three Forks of the Missouri, I halted the party..."
--Meriwether Lewis in the Journals of Lewis & Clark (deVoto ed), July 27, 1805.

North Dakota

Once upon a time I worked with the Traill County Economic Development Commission, in Mayville, North Dakota, USA.
Local daily: Grand Forks Herald ; Traill County Tribune's the weekly paper (snailmail solo so far).

Alma Mater

University of Colorado at Denver School of Architecture & Planning (Denver Post)
In grad school, did some neat work on rural development for the former Center for the New West, a policy research organization based in Denver, Colorado.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept of Urban & Regional Planning--Oskee Wa Wa! (Chicago Tribune)
Mayville State University (two classes, but they sure know business--Go Comets!)

Fav Stuff:

3rd Coast Freeform American Roots music review: FAR
Used to do a volunteer Americana radio DJ gig.
Something Not Quite Competely Different: Film on Tape
Books: Too Numerous to List--L'Amour & other westerns, history, architecture, geography, politics, Clancy and various odd paperbacks.
Sometimes I try to write fiction and poetry.

History & Geneology:

I'm interested in all aspects of history, in particular the Big Wide West.
Tracing the family tree: Shepard, Woodman, Maloy, Tillstrom, Habets, Franklin, and many more.

Other Stuff Under Construction

soon to come...

Consumer warning: OK, so this ain't the most cutting edge html-slamn' ever seen. I really just wanted to be able to get at my Navigator bookmarks offsite. And besides, life's too short to get uptight about it. Life's also too short to drink bad beer, but that's another page to come.

on an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 5300cs with help from old faithfull SE/30
27 November 2008