I overlooked a few acknowledgements intended to go at the end of Part 1 and inserted them at the end of Chapter 6. Here they are:
Acknowledgements, Part 1:
“God Bless Our Love”, Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Sweet Home Alabama”, “Ballad of Curtis Loewe”, Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Melissa”, Allman Brothers Band
Thanks to Monica and Grace at the Dave Cullen forum, for information about Western riding and for general coaching.
The Paris plane crash that David describes was an historic aviation disaster that devastated Atlanta’s arts community, on June 3, 1962. Special thanks to Georgia blogger/historian Randy Golden, whose article “The Day Atlanta Died” refreshed my fuzzy memories of it. The article is at
http://ngeorgia.com/feature/orly.html