K C McCrawThe author was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from high school, he worked in the field of telecommunications before joining the Navy. While in the Navy, he traveled extensively throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seasaboard the guided-missile destroyer, the USS Sampson. After returning from active duty, he resumed his previous employment, becoming skilled as a toolmaker before receiving his college degree Magna Cum Laude on the GI Bill of Rights.Having lived in Baltimore most of his life, McCraw became very familiar with, and intrigued by, its tributaries along with the lifestyles of the people who inhabited the water communities of the Chesapeake Bay. Perhaps this is why he has used this geographical location for Peter's Burn. Read More Read Less