From growing up with Maine parents in rural New Hampshire, his education came from Dartmouth, the University of Kiel (Fulbright Fellowship) and Yale. He has been a teacher of German language and literature in colleges, Latin and English as well at private secondary schools. A member and captain of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team and for many years a staff coach with the National Team, he was variously a construction worker, ski touring center designer and operator, and for twenty years (through 2007) a teacher and running and cross-country ski coach at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He lives with his wife Sally in Bethel.
