Biographical essays on some of the author’s heroes, including an eccentric conservationist and her war hero husband; the founding CEO of Dover Corporation; the founders of the Virginia furniture and textile industries; three leading CEOs of Virginia furniture and sweatsuit makers; the author’s mentor, a Virginia Supreme Court Justice and artist; the author’s father, a self educated lawyer and farmer, and younger son, a mechanical genius; a homeless schizophrenic; and a marine corporal who died in combat in Vietnam.