Tim is a retired educator, living with his husband, John in their restored 1856 Farmhouse in Provincetown, MA. Having developed experiential social studies curriculum at alternative high schools in Philadelphia and in Wilmington DE Friends School in 3rd and 4th grade during his first decade in education, he spent much of the rest of his career in developing research-based social and emotional curricula and school counseling and psych services at the district, state and federal level.
His avocation during this 30 year career, was to focus on a variety of historical projects: Spent a number of years working as a docent and archaeological staffer at Plimoth Plantation, restored their 1856 Farmhouse home on Cape Cod, and created a geneaological study of his mother's family. -(Czyka) on site in Poland. and a similar study of his father's Irish (Dunn) roots in Dublin (18th century) and English roots (Fones) in Devonshire (16th century). His first book was a visual summary of this research using family records, pictures and antiques.
The Poppa and the Punkin: A WWII Romance Told in Letters (1939-1946) is his latest effort, taking the over 600 letters of his parents, his grandmother and uncle written to each other 1939-1946 giving the reader a picture of an American family at war and on the homefront. The e-version and the soft cover of the Poppa and the Punkin will be available from Bookbaby's Bookshop on August 6, 2020. The book will be available in both forms at Amazon around August 21, 2020