Well, that's a little cryptic. Allow me to introduce myself 
a little better...
I am a thirtysomething guy who works as an architectural historian and
lives in an old house near Chillicothe, Ohio, USA.
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I was born two months too late to watch the first humans walk on another
planet (i.e., Apollo 11...). Although I was born in Columbus, Ohio, I don't remember living there - at least not the
first time. My family moved near Cincinnati, to Loveland, Ohio (the location of an X-Files episode). There I found
my first memory - swinging on the swingset. My second was walking - or shall
I say architecturally adventuring - the yellow cold
house we moved into in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Soon we moved out of the city to a ranch house on a street named...Emerald
Lane...which was in a subdivision named...yes, really...Green Acres.
There I grew up, attending the small rural Paint Valley school system and hiking through the wilderness of the
floodplains, hillsides and swamps of that corner of Ross
County. Aimless wandering - and staring out
the window during a long bus ride to and from school - eventually led to
an appreciation of the natural environment, and I became adept at identifying
wild plants and glacial landforms. This gradually led to an appreciation
ofhistorical architecture - I still haven't figured out why - and then
to local history. In high school I expressed my creativity through photography
and writing. After graduation, for three years I wrote a short column in the
local newspaper, the Chillicothe
Gazette,on historical architecture.
So I went to Ohio University to major in geology, which
I quickly switched to magazine journalism in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. I wanted to write
about history, and that seemed like a good direction to go. Nearing graduation,
I realized that journalism was not the way I wanted to deal with history.
(Don't you wish you could have the education before you choose the
course to be educated in?) But, my parents talked me out of changing majors
in my senior year.
However, they did finance my stay in graduate school, in the Historic Preservation
Program at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti (the "Y" sounds like a soft "I"), Michigan, USA. Architectural
history, geography, the built environment, history... I could enjoy studying
this the rest of my life.
I was fortunate in finding a job in this field nine months before I graduated,
where I worked for about eight years, at ASC Group with a wonderful boss
and great co-workers. Now I am on my own as a one-man company, INTREPID
HISTORICAL SERVICES.
were not my best writing, but they are a part
of my work and my growth. Here they will be, with much-needed
improvements...
I've also written a little poetry, mostly during High School. See
if you like it. My few short stories, such as this one, tend to be based on nature or
science fiction themes.
My writings for INTREPID
HISTORICAL SERVICES and ASCare fairly technical and dry, so this is my
vita (in need of
updating). I've experimented with spreadsheets / databases as tools to analyze
and illustrate architecture, with some pretty results
...
I have utilized data from several projects to create interpretive web pages
in my architectural
history website.
And others to come...
Since about 1984 I have beeen a 35mm SLR photographer, working mostly inKodachrome (color slides). I've also dabbled
in B/W and those trendy composite print panoramas. Here are some samples
of my photography.
What
do I do?studies the artistic and historical aspects of
houses and other buildings. However, that is only one of my responsibilities
in INTREPID
HISTORICAL SERVICES my one-man consulting company. IHS deals partly
with CRM work - Cultural
Resource Management - and specifically, the archaeological and architectural
aspects of CRM.
In layman's terms, CRM is the practice of studying, documenting and planning for the use and care of the built environment. This is usually the historical built environment - houses, bridges, barns, privies, gardens, canals, lakes, farms, trails, roads, ruins, earthworks, habitation sites - any old structural evidence that people left of their occupation and use of the land.
I consider myself a geographer first and foremost. Architectural history is secondary in my opinion to studying the cultural environment that the architecture is in. And to me, the artistic aspect of architecture - the style - is also secondary to the functional design - the type - of a building.
Let me get back to you on more of that...
I am also a Historic Preservationist by heart. That does not mean that I want everything
old to be preserved, but but it would be a good idea to conserve
much of our historical heritage.
Thus, I have created the State Route 104 Preservation
WebPage and the 
Tara Hall Preservation Web Page, both in progress. (Update - Tara Hall was
a lost cause. More later.)
And possibly, a small amount of preservation justice on the internet:
Big House Lost, History
Executed. The Ohio State Penitentiary was one of the oldest remaining
state buildings in the capital of Ohio, a site of paramount historical importance,
and an edifice of significant architectural merit.
After neglecting the site for decades, the state handed it over to the city of Columbus who eventually persevered with the predominant paradigm of Cowtown: if it's old and unique, crush it and pave it over. Fortunately, the preservation office of the Columbus forced the rest of the city to document the site. I was one of the documentors and had the oportunity to view the pen close-up.
The Architectural Surveying and Community Interpretation
division of ASC Group,in Columbus, Ohio, USA,
was my employer for eight years.
A better answer to "Where do I work?" is "All over Ohio." My work has taken me to most areas of Ohio..except Cleveland, for some reason (until just recently). From hilly Southeast Ohio to the flat Great Black Swamp to rolling central Ohio to the winding Ohio River Valley to the ravines of Northeast Ohio, I've seen plenty. Fortunately, there's still much more to see...
And now I am on my own with my one-man company 
INTREPIDHISTORICAL SERVICES...but more later.
You can see my hoped-to-be-huge website
on architecture, geography, buildings, structures, styles, etc., and
my Heritage News of Chillicothe and South-Central Ohio.
...omitting the Local Group of galaxies,
Milky Way Galaxy, Alpha Quadrant, Saggitarius Arm, Sol System, Earth, Northern
Hemisphere, and North America...
...for now...
the largest university in the world...I think.
The campus just north of the downtown dominates (for better and worse...but
getting better) the old neighborhoods around it.
(Well, no, I now live in a half-abandoned house an hour south...but more on that later...
) And like my cats, I enjoy a little adventure.
Architecture
There's so much I could say -
Let me get back to you on that...
History
History is my profession and hobby. Again, there's too much for me to say
just yet. But visit my brother's MASSIVE web site on railroads, the Webville & Hypertext Railway, which has a bit of
history in it, especially his East Broad Top Railroad sub-site.
Outdoors
In the great outdoors, I garden bare-handed (and bare-footed, if possible).
The closer my connection with Mother Earth, the better. I prefer native American
species such as prarie plants and woodland wildflowers, both of which I have
planting at my home. I hike when I can, preferably in areas as close to a
wilderness as possible.
Entertainment
My usual entertainment is historical reality, historical fiction, science
fiction, speculative fiction and intelligent educational shows in the form
of cinema and good TV. Here is a crude (and old) list of the creators of my
favorite media and their creations.
Cinema
I love a good film. The ones I love tend to be rooted in history (Last of the Mohicans), science fiction (Close Encounters), or are just a good telling
of a human condition (Casablanca). Above all, a movie is
just another form of storytelling - and in this case, the campfire has become
a tungsten lamp and the storyteller a chameleon in emulsion. See my cinema favorites for more.
Music
My favorite music tends to be Celtic, New Age, Modern Rock, Folk Rock, Movie
Music, Classical, and others. And anachronism is good - I like mixing the
Celtic harp with electric guitar, fiddle with speed rock, bluegrass and chimes,
dance beat and Irish reel. I have a list of some of my latest preferences and recommendations.
Some music is timeless to me, especially if it recals a certain feeling,
image or place. Since I can't easily share the music with you here, I'll
share the lyrics, and a few MIDI files.
Art
My favorite art includes landscape art, the Impressionists, the Romantic
Era,Classical architecture and sculpture, and other topics.
My favorite painters include Giotto, Piero Della Francesca, Fra Angelico,
Fra Filippo Lipppi; Albrecht Durer; Angelica Kauffmann, Henry Fuseli, William
Blake, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Eugene Delacroix, Thomas Cole, Phillip
Otto Runge; the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Bouguereau,Caspar David Friedrich; John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Vincent Van Gough;
the Wyeths, Georgia O'Keeffe...and so on. (Ain't Gardner's Art Through
The Ages neat?)
My most favorite painting - as you might expect - is The Architect's Dream.
I've doodled with some Celtic designs, so here are a few to look
at or copy. Some are big.
BTW, my favorite color is blue. Betcha couldn't tell!
Literature
Well, I'm not as well read as I should be. At least not with non-architecture
books. Among literature, my favorite poem is The Raven. Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is close behind...and Emily Dickinson is just too cool.
Activities
My favorite activities are hiking, photography, canoeing, biking, architectural exploring, semi-unstructured travelling... Eventually I will list
of some of my favorite places to visit...
Life
Life is also fun for me--both the vegetative kind and the warm-fuzzy kind.
As for the vegetative kind, my plants, I put my green
thumb to work on my native wildflowers that I am gradually planting in my
yard. I also have a few houseplants that have survived years of inconstant
attention. I also have a plan for improving the landscaping
around my house with period plants and fruiting plants.
And the warm fuzzy kind of life are my household's cats (though they are sometimes both warm-fuzzy andvegetative).
Yes, I am cat-owned. I wear the badge of shed fur, and the tattoo of claw
marks. I have three of the fuzzy fiends...I'm sorry, fuzzy friends...and close
contact with many more. Sometimes too close.
Historical humor is also good... Computers, however, are a double-edged sword...or
should I say a three-edged sword... Then there's always religion
And of course, here are my bookmarks(some a little outdated, but be patient...) for what I
like on the WWW. It's big - maybe more than 750 links.
This is the height of human civilization. At no other time have we had so much potential, so many possibilities, so many dreams and such freedom. And unless we annihilate ourselves and a good portion of mother earth, it will only get better. That is not to say that no one is without these beneits of the modern age; many still lack freedom and opportunity. But they are more widely available than ever before.
I am not being ultra-patriotic, ethnocentric, ignorant of the past or a Pollyanna when I say, in my opinion as a historian, geographer and sci-fi fan, that this is the best place and time to be alive. The growth of technology, personal freedom, disposable income, leisure time, communications, art and literature make this the best time and place since prehistoric humansdeveloped language, culture, art and lived close to the earth in egalitarian hunter-gatherer tribes. Although they did not have THX sound or PostModern architecture or mint chocolate chip ice cream or the Internet, they did not need it, and they lacked most of the evils that humans have developed in the following thousands of years.
If anything, through the internet we are re-approaching the true communism of tribal culture. The internet is egalitarian: anyone can have accessand speak. It enforces mutual respect: the unwritten code of ethics allows self-policing (unless the government deems to interfere). It encourages leadership by example: the best is chosen by how well it works, not by how much it is advertized. And so on. No, it's not perfect, but it will improve. And all without government interference.
Did I mention that I think the internet is great?
The practice of studying, documenting and planning for
the use and care of the built environment. This is usually the historical
built environment--houses, bridges, barns, privies, gardens, canals, lakes,
farms, trails, roads, ruins, earthworks, habitation sites--any old evidence
that people left of their occupation and use of the land.No, it's not the Third Age of Mankind...not yet.
the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, and the OhioLink Online Card Catalog,
for example. I have a fairly low opinion
of OSU - to put it nicely, Ohio's
SuckiestUniversity.in July 1997. This doesn't quite apply to me (especially
if you wait for an email response from me), but I like the sound of it...
The implication was that this is the silicon version of a couch potato - someone
who sits in front of a computer too much. Hmmm...I'm related to one... pass me by...
I am, sincerely, kbc@horizonview.net
WARNING! WARNING! Although email travels at the speed of light, my communications motivations don't. I enjoy my privacy and sometimes enforce it by IGNORING any attempted communications...as the nice people who keep sending me bills have found out... If you don't hear from me, it's probably because I haven't read my mail yet.
- Nota Bene -
All original material presented here is hereby copyright 1998 (and 2002 (and 2007)) by me. I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is just plain rude. If you like what I've done here, please ask me if you can use it. You are welcome to, if you have manners.
All material presented here that is the creation of the author of this web page is borrowed for the purpose of education, commentary and criticism, and will be returned once I remember where I got it during the last four years. Any credit not given is a work still in progress. Some artistic licences may have been taken; I will also return those too; and no, my artistic licence has not expired...yet
I am not making any money from this (Ha! As if I could make money!) and, if I can help the original artist or sreator make money to reward them for their talent and effort, I am willing to do so. So don't harass me--I'm poor and well-intentioned.
. Remember
- no matter where you go, there you are. .
- last updated 15 June AD 2007 -
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