We'd like to keep this page short and sweet but you'd just be asking us lots of questions! 

We've been a team for fifty-one years now. Yes, just had our (51st) anniversary. We started out building and designing really custom homes (some 4 stories high) in the Virginia Beach area for 24 years before moving to Montana in 1994.

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After winning a historic preservation award in the Missoula historic University area, we built a huge bed and breakfast on a blue ribbon trout stream and cooked and cleaned for several years until it was't fun any more!

I haven't cooked for quite a few years now.

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Our next adventure was this beautiful square mile of Bitterroot Valley. Year one was  spent fencing and laying out the roadways and doing engineering for the tracts.

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The name came easily as this valley was home to natives. "Red Quill" was derived from porcupine quillwork that was dyed and fashioned on to breastplates and many other parts of clothing by Indians.  Part Cherokee and obsessed with native arts my whole life, I have painted many western murals , etc. I'm an artist who studied at Cleveland Art Institute, taught art Kindergarten through High School, have had my own "Paint 'n Sip" wine and art class business, graphics, painted and created many 8 ft x 12 ft antique Indian Rug replicas on tile, fired  in huge kilns, scenic murals, worked in 17 theater plays, several movie sets, draw up my own floor plans, you name it!