About Us

I am John. My wife Theresa and I live in Southern Oregon. I have worked as a local government manager for about 4 decades and am out to pasture in the pines. Now much of my time is spend supporting a non-profit organization. I work both at the region and at the national level. At 76 years of age things are changing and the art of responding constructively to the changes is likely the key to productivity and happiness.

My family’s background since the 1630s has been from Massachusetts, New Jersey around 1690, Virginia mid 1700s, Tennessee around 1800 and Southern Germany/Switzerland before 1900.

For the last 100+ years, my family has lived in Central California, Tulare County, near Sequoia National Forest working as teachers, local politicians, public servants, farmers, ranchers, and homemakers.

More recently, we have moved. Some remain nearby in the Valley, but others have moved to the California coastal mountains, Southern Oregon, Missouri, Florida and Europe.

I believe we as a family have embodied the resilient American yeoman spirit.

We were farmers and worked to cultivate and harvest crops on our own property and meet our family and civic responsibilities.

We take pride in a public service and military tradition in our family, starting with the Revolution (Virginia Militia at Yorktown) and subsequently in the War of 1812, the Civil War, a hiatus for the Spanish-American War and WWI, but resuming with WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, and the Iraq War

Our occupations have broadened to lawyer, scientist, documentary producer, local government public manager, realtor, search engine entrepreneur, professor-university administrator, teacher, military officer and homemaker.

If you want to comment, please write to jlongley@amendoon.net .