James Long is a retired Navy, Vietnam Veteran who volunteers part time with United States Forestry Service archeologists. He received his bachelors in history from Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Mr. Long edited: Be to Me, the collected correspondence and published works of William H. Hodgkins, Bookstand Publishing, 2011, as well as coauthored: The Road to Redemption, Civil War Times Illustrated, August 1997. He will also be releasing, in 2021, Potpourri.