People you meet, events you experience create the individual that you become

Back in 1978, I hired a group of young men in their mid-20s who all grew up to be powerhouse publishers. But back then, they were raw, ambitious and a handful to deal with, for sure.

My wife Nancy and I recently both enjoyed and endured hearing about some of those earliest Wyoming experiences during a mini-reunion of some of these former colleagues here in Lander.

Recalling those early Wyoming days of the late 1970s was like going back in a time machine and experiencing them all over again. Yet, here I was talking about these events to a bunch of gray-haired, grizzled fellows instead of th...