Ted EhmannTed Ehmann was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1949. The grandson of the late noted landscape painter M. Frank Ehmann, he took to fine art at an early age. After suffering through schooling during the Cold War years, Ehmann went to the Philadelphia Cllege of Art to study painting. He had his own graphic design and advertising firm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, until 1990. In 1990, while applying to the College of New Jersey to finish his Bachelors of Arts degree, Ehmann was offered a teaching position in the art department and was the only person to teach at the college while studying as an undergraduate. In those years as an undergraduate, he double-majored in art and history. He accepted a graduate assistantship at the College of New Jersey and earned his masters in teaching history in 1994. He continued to teach both the visuals arts and the histories until retiring to Florida in 2016. Currently, besides writing histories, Ehmann conducts historical research on the prehistoric moundbuilding cultures that were in south Florida from 800 BC to AD 1700. In 2018, he founded and is now the president of the Charlotte Harbor Anthropological Society. The following year, he cofounded the Charlotte County Florida Historical Society. His first book was published in 2020: The People of the Great Circle: Prehistoric Mound Builders in South Florida. He enjoys presenting his research and narratives to archaeological and history groups throughout southwest Florida, as well as teaching courses for Florida Gulf Coast University in Punta Gorda, Florida. Read More Read Less