Ned Shenton's eighty plus years have been full of adventure. He grew up in small Pennsylvania town the son of an illustrator father and a writer mother ; he quickly left home following in neither of their footsteps. Rather he studied oceanography at Texas A&M and worked in the field for many years. He became an expert in underwater craft eventually joining Jacques Cousteau's famous diving saucer crew. Along the way he worked on teams that photographed the early space sattelites and drilled into the Greenland ice sheet.  He has loved several old houses, many boats and innumerable automobiles. Looking back over his well-spent life, Ned Shenton is truely grateful.