He then went on to earn a degree in English from Southeastern. Between 1972 and 1997, he worked as an editor, reporter and photographer for St. Tammany newspapers, primarily the St. Tammany Farmer, as well as writing free lance articles for a number of magazines and newsletters.
Ron’s hobbies include photography, cartooning, and history. His mission has always been to use his variety of media production skills to help people tell their story. He will speak to the Covington Heritage Foundation in September about his love of historical photos and his drawing of community maps over the past 30 years.
Did you know that Ron has drawn and published more than 50 pictorial cartoon maps of small towns, wrote several songs (one of which was adopted as the official song of the City of Covington), and some of his photographs were chosen for display at the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans?
A typical day for Ron is to get up at 6:30 a.m., check his blog site statistics, go out and meet friends for breakfast around 9:00a.m., and then spend the rest of the day doing house and yard maintenance or on the internet posting blog entries to his www.tammanyfamily.com website.
His favorite place for lunch would have to be the Triple Nickel Grill in Mandeville. When asked what is the best way to spend $20 he replied, “taking my wife out to lunch.”
He also has written three novels which are for sale on Amazon.com, one of those being a comedy about Cajuns and the other two are science fiction. “I do like to see people smile, so once in a while I do something goofy and that usually does it,” he said.
