Christine Buck is a niece of Larry K. and John H. Buchholz. She is a graduate of Centenary College and the State University of New York, and, with her husband, owner of an environmental engineering and testing firm and a 200-year-old working sawmill. She is also a writer, historian and poet, and a lecturer on the history of upstate New York cemeteries.

John Buchholz is the nephew of Larry K. and John H. Buchholz and is a native of New York State's Finger Lakes region. He is a Cornell University alumnus, has four sons and ten grandchildren, and is retired from a labor relations career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lives in a lakeside cottage in rural upstate New York with his wife, seven cats and twenty guitars. His writing has appeared in magazines,
journals and anthologies, and he is currently preparing a collection of his short fiction for publication.

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