Christine Buchholz Buck, born in Lyons, New York is a graduate of Centenary College and the State University of New York at Cortland. With her husband, she owns an environmental engineering firm based in Cortland, and a 200-year-old working sawmill along the Genegantslet Creek in Chenango County, New York.  She is also a historian and poet, and a lecturer on the history of upstate New York cemeteries.

John Buchholz is a native of New York State's Finger Lakes region (Penn Yan, Lyons, Geneva, Ithaca) and lives with his wife in Chenango County, New York.  He is a Cornell University alumnus and is retired from a labor relations career in Philadelphia. His writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies, and he is currently preparing a collection of his short fiction for publication.

*14th Annual Writer's Digest International Book Awards Competition:
Life Stories Category - Honorable Mention

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